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Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of statistics and infographics. Nightingale used statistics to measure the quality of soldiers treatment and sanitation. She wrote reports with diagrams so to be understood by politicians and the illiterate; popularizing the pie graph in the process.

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Fun Fact: Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of statistics and infographics. Nightingale used statistics to measure the quality of soldiers’ treatment and sanitation. She wrote reports with diagrams so to be understood by politicians and the illiterate; popularizing the pie graph in the process.

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