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