An innovative "polar sector plot" titled "Diagram Representing Mortality in the Hospitals".
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Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820.
Though best known as a nurse (maybe a reductive and gendered way of siloing her contributions) she did pioneering work applying statistics to public health and communicating her results with innovative data visualization.
Image: National Archives (UK)
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