Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

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🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Florence Nightingale became one of the icons of Victorian Britain for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and the public health improvements she successfully campaigned for later on. Tim Harford discusses how she and her ‘Nightingale Circle’ used spectacular diagrams to explain health statistics persuasively with RJ Andrews, editor of “Florence Nightingale, Mortality and Health Diagrams”.

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0:23.9	Thank you for downloading the more or less podcast.
0:30.3	We are weekly guides, the numbers in the news and in life.
0:33.5	And I'm Tim Haafard.
0:35.0	She had this calling from God, which she said when she was 17 years old,
0:38.5	she kept having dreams, daydreams about hospitals and about nursing.
0:42.4	And when she said that God somehow came to her to give her this message,
0:45.9	that must be what she wanted to do.
0:47.7	That's the voice of Eileen Magnello,
0:50.9	Research Associate at University College London.
0:53.9	She's talking about Florence Nightingale,
0:55.9	who is an iconic figure, particularly in the UK.
1:00.2	Famous as a nurse and for professionalising nursing itself,
1:04.2	she was the first woman other than Queen Elizabeth II to have her image on English banknotes.
1:09.2	During the pandemic, we named our emergency hospitals after her.
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