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