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I learned as a child about Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as the founder of the modern profession of nursing and probably the single person who did the most to make it socially acceptable for women from middle- and upper-class background to become nurses.... What I had not learned about Nightingale as a child was that she was also an early innovator in applying statistical analysis to health data, and in the graphic presentation of data. Indeed, he was the first female member of Britain's Royal Statistical Society/ Noel-Ann Bradshaw provides a nice overview of this story in "Florence Nightingale (1820–1910): An Unexpected Master of Data," in Patterns magazine (May 2020).... I didn't know that either.Conversable EconomistFlorence Nightingale: Innovator in Statistics and Data
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I learned as a child about Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as the founder of the modern profession of nursing and probably the single person who did the most to make it socially acceptable for women from middle- and upper-class background to become nurses.... What I had not learned about Nightingale as a child was that she was also an early innovator in applying statistical analysis to health data, and in the graphic presentation of data. Indeed, he was the first female member of Britain's Royal Statistical Society/ Noel-Ann Bradshaw provides a nice overview of this story in "Florence Nightingale (1820–1910): An Unexpected Master of Data," in Patterns magazine (May 2020).... I didn't know that either.Conversable EconomistFlorence Nightingale: Innovator in Statistics and Data
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I learned as a child about Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as the founder of the modern profession of nursing and probably the single person who did the most to make it socially acceptable for women from middle- and upper-class background to become nurses....
What I had not learned about Nightingale as a child was that she was also an early innovator in applying statistical analysis to health data, and in the graphic presentation of data. Indeed, he was the first female member of Britain's Royal Statistical Society/ Noel-Ann Bradshaw provides a nice overview of this story in "Florence Nightingale (1820–1910): An Unexpected Master of Data," in Patterns magazine (May 2020)....I didn't know that either.
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Florence Nightingale: Innovator in Statistics and Data Presentation
Timothy Taylor | Managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, based at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota