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# How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever
- URL: https://werd.io/how-florence-nightingale-changed-data-visualization-forever/
- Published: 2022-07-27T13:49:43.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-27T13:49:43.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“Recognizing that few people actually read statistical tables, Nightingale and her team designed graphics to attract attention and engage readers in ways that other media could not. Their diagram designs evolved over two batches of publications, giving them opportunities to react to the efforts of other parties also jockeying for influence. \[…\] The reforms Nightingale fought for \[…\] would be driving forces—along with the development of vaccines that conferred immunity to diseases and artificial fertilizer that boosted crop yields—in doubling the average human life span during the following century.” [#Media](https://werd.io/tag/Media)

\[[Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-florence-nightingale-changed-data-visualization-forever/)\]