Florence Nightingale saved lives by creating revolutionary visualizations of statistics. Yes, data visualizations are that powerful. They are able to communicate much more effectively than a large table of numbers.

Here’s an article called Florence Nightingale Saved Lives by Creating Revolutionary Visualizations of Statistics (1855).

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Here’s a short (less than 4 minute) video by Hans Rosling briefly describing what Florence Nightingale did for the world of statistics, nursing and medicine. It’s called Florence Nightingale: Joy of Stats (3/6).