She wins a set of The Eloquent Woman’s magnetic poetry. But then Florence Nightingale might not have been especially unusual if she stuck to a relatively original design that occurred to her, rather than something simpler and more commonly used. I asked readers on The Eloquent Woman on Facebook to guess which famous woman helped advance the pie chart, and Emily Dust Nimsakont was first out of the box with the correct answer. Pie charts and variations on rose charts seem to have arisen around 1800. The University of Houstons College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. In fact, Nightingale’s design improves upon the original in a way that was much later confirmed by research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, showing that comparison by angle is less accurate than comparison by length, something her design incorporates into the pie chart. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph. However, she is mostly known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be. In addition to writing over 150 books, pamphlets and reports on health-related issues, she is also credited with creating one of the first versions of the pie chart. You’ll see few pie charts in scientific papers, as they are not considered ideal for many scientific displays. Often called the Lady with the Lamp, Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader. Named Nightingale Hospitals, they pay homage to the famous lady of the lamp. As the historian Hugh Small notes, Nightingale may not have invented statistical graphs, but “she may have been the first to use them for persuading people of the need for change.” Florence Nightingale’s Rose Diagram by Amy Sherlock In recent weeks, a number of temporary field hospitals have sprung up across Britain for the treatment of Covid-19 patients. From the New York Times article:įlorence Nightingale drove home the impact of poor sanitary conditions on mortality rates during the Crimean War by reconfiguring a pie chart, varying the length, rather than the width, of the wedges, so that the graph resembled a cock’s comb. Starting and ending with scenes from Chester races, many of the character can be seen. (The food imagery even carries into many languages, such as French, where a pie chart is called le camembert after the wedges of cheese it resembles.) But it took a woman presenter, famous nurse and noted statistician Florence Nightingale, to advance the pie chart in the uses for which we know it today. Hollyoaks has released its brand new spring trailer offering fans a glimpse of its upcoming storylines. Then they were used in combinations with maps to convey additional data, and expanded in shapes to include rings and “doughnut” charts. Pie charts didn’t catch on until the middle of the 19th century, however. Not only are there examples from 19 years before she was born, but she didnt even use them The earliest recorded example of a Pie Chart is by William. The New York Times magazine took a look at the founder of the pie chart, William Playfair, who first used it in 1801. Of greatest interest here, was her role as a social activist and view that statistical data, presented in charts and diagrams, could be used as powerful. The pie chart, perhaps the only presentation tool that reminds you of dessert, is older than you think.
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