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 ...

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 ...

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, ...