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