Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer

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Comedian, writer, and podcaster Jamie Loftus has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips — that little piece of plastic that marks a day, a month, a year of sobriety. Now as an adult, Jamie wanted to understand wh ... Show More

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Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns.Her charts convinced th ... Show More

Florence Nightingale was forced to hide her light under a bushel until her thirties, when she broke free in spectacular fashion to become the world's beloved Lady With The Lamp - as well as a master statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Learn more about your ad choices. ... Show More

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Florence Nightingale stands as one of the most important reformers of 19th century medicine -- a woman whose belief in the power of reason and statistical thinking would critically shape the both the fields of epidemiology and nursing. This epis ... Show More

Pre-order our new book: Short History of Ancient Rome Revered as a heroine, and mythologised as ‘the Lady with the Lamp’, Florence Nightingale has gone down in history as the founder of modern nursing. She battled ill-health and the prejudices of her age to leave an indelible mar ... Show More

She was a trailblazing social reformer and the founder of modern nursing. Today’s quote from Florence Nightingale speaks to her boldness, and the key to making a meaningful difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Join Greg Jenner for a fun homeschool history lesson on the woman who changed the face of healthcare forever, Florence Nightingale. Learn about how she forged her own path to become a nurse, the obstacles she had to overcome to care for troops overseas and how she continued to fi ... Show More

The Lady with the Lamp, the great nurse who forever changed public health for the better: Florence Nightingale lives large in the national consciousness. Mary Seacole, however, has been largely forgotten by history, even though she too played a significant role in the Crimean War ... Show More

<p>Ada Lovelace and Florence Nightingale came from different worlds but shared a determination to defy expectations and change history. Ada, the visionary mathematician, laid the groundwork for modern computing, while Florence revolutionized healthcare and nursing. In this episod ... Show More

Her name has become synonymous with saving lives and gave us the name for Nightingale helicopters that provide fast transport for emergency cases. To the soldiers of the Crimean war and many others, she was a legend. Subscribe to 1001 Classic Short Stories & tales at iTunes and g ... Show More

A new episode of my other podcast, Calm History, is now available for everyone: “Florence Nightingale: Crimean War &#38; Birth of Nursing”.  The citizens of England began hearing about the poor care of their soldiers in military hospitals during the Crimean War. Florence Nighting ... Show More