Florence Nightingale
We will share some inspiration for topics and visualisations regularly on the CCDL website. In this post I would like to point out to Nightingale, a journal on platform Medium, founded by the Data Visualization Society
Have a look at these excellent articles / data visualizations, posted on Nightingale, concerning health-related topics:
https://medium.com/nightingale/how-is-covid-19-case-data-collected-9afd50630c08
https://medium.com/nightingale/visualizing-indias-public-health-infrastructure-bbc91dfac1a4
https://medium.com/nightingale/when-data-renders-invisible-illnesses-visible-e585dfb5863b
The name Nightingale refers to Florence Nightingale, the English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War in Constantinopel (modern-day Istanbul), around 1850. She was also a pioneer in data visualisation. Watch this video about her work as an information designer:
The video is an excerpt from the fantastic documentary The Joy of Stats, presented by Hans Rosling: