Data Saved Thousands of Lives
You ____ know Florence Nightingale as a nurse who helped sick people.
But ____ you also know that she was good at math?
When she was young, Nightingale liked ____ with numbers.
She ____ counting travel time and distance on family trips.
Then she gathered the numbers and recorded them as ____.
Nightingale knew that ____ was important.
She used data to ____ problems.
During the Crimean War, Nightingale went to the battlefield to help ____ soldiers.
The hospital was much ____ than she thought.
It was dirty, ____, and full of bugs!
Nightingale knew that ____ hospitals could be bad for the soldiers.
More soldiers got ____ and died in the dirty hospital than in battle.
She ____ to change that.
She asked England to ____ the hospital much cleaner and safer.
____, the leaders of England didn’t understand.
To help them see the problem, she collected data ____ the number of wounded and dead soldiers.
However, showing her findings with just ____ was difficult.
To solve this problem,
To solve this problem, Nightingale ____ a simple picture.
It is ____ Nightingale’s rose diagram.
The diagram looked ____ a rose with twelve petals.
Each petal showed a month, and larger petals meant more deaths. In the ____ diagram, three different colors were used by Nightingale: blue, red, and black.
Blue is for disease, red is for battle wounds, and ____ is for other causes.
Surprisingly, the blue part was the largest! Nightingale ____ this diagram to show her data simply and clearly.
She was very ____ and creative.
When ____ saw Nightingale’s rose diagram, they were amazed.
It helped ____ understand that clean hospitals are very important.
Thanks to the rose ____, hospitals became much cleaner and safer.
____ love for data and smart ideas saved many lives.
She is still respected by ____ around the world today.