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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagram
Florence Nightingale's diagram divides the data into two halves. Life expectancy strikingly improved in the second half of the 19th century. The sanitary and revolution deserves much of the credit for this. But that's why it's so shocking to see the data from the rose diagram replotted as a bar chart. When you do that, the stark before and after story is lost.
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