When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a nurse with a lamp, comforting soldiers. Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing. But she also made serious ...

Florence Nightingale used data and creativity to alter the course of human health. Florence Nightingale hypothesizes that poor hygiene causes disease, and the data confirms it. In an ingenious move, ...

Throughout history, the best data visualizations have served as the public’s window onto a complex world. In a time when everything from the endangerment of the Juggalo to Carrie Bradshaw’s shoe ...

A highlight is Florence Nightingale’s rose diagram, showing how dirty hospitals were killing more soldiers than war. By Michael Brooks A new exhibition at the British Library – its first ever ...

For many, the rise of the infographic is linked to the digital age. Yet a new exhibition will show scientists and statisticians have used images to explain data for centuries, including Edmund Halley ...

Florence Nightingale’s innovative “rose diagram” of preventable deaths revolutionized data-driven disease surveillance. 1 Raw hospital mortality data collected during the Crimean War were transformed ...