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