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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Nightingale's Visual Story

In another letter to the same friend, written on Christmas Day 1857, she sketched out a plan to use data visualization for social change. She declared her plan to have her diagrams glazed, framed, and hung on the wall at the Army Medical Board and War Department. Nightingale's visual story was impossible to ignore. Opinions started to shift, Parliament passed new laws, doctors adopted new practices.

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