Florence Nightingale, datajournalist: information has always been beautiful | News | The Guardian
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Florence Nightingale and statistics - it turns out the two are intimately connected. Graphics are terribly trendy at the moment - and as data floods onto the web, this is a trend we heartily applaud, here at the datablog. But sometimes it’s good to know that it’s not entirely new.
We all have an image of Nightingale - who died 100 years ago today - as a nurse, lady with the lamp, medical reformer and campaigner for soldiers’ health. But she was also a datajournalist.