But she also made serious contributions in statistical data analysis, and used the diagram named after her, the Nightingale rose diagram, to convince the British Parliament to enact sanitation ...

These innovative diagrams, she said, were “designed ‘to affect thro’ the Eyes what we may fail to convey to the brains of the public through their word-proof ears.” Nightingale’s ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady ... she represented the death toll in a revolutionary way. Her ‘rose diagram’ showed a sharp decrease in fatalities following the work of ...

Florence Nightingale also devised a way to record and compare information on casualties and the impact of poor hospital conditions. This was called a rose diagram and is similar to a pie chart.