Florence Nightingale's Polar Area Diagrams


Florence referred to these charts as Polar Area diagrams. They are in fact one of the first uses of a pie chart. They clearly illustrated that deaths from disease had been drastically reduced after the implementation of her methods and regime. They were presented to the 1857 Royal Commission.


Florence Nightingale


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