{"id":4521,"date":"2015-05-11T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.boomerapps.com\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:49:05","slug":"166-nightingale-s-diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/tutorials\/166-nightingale-s-diagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightingale\u2019s diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visualization is a great way to make decisions. Because, as a human, we are well wired to process data visually.<br \/>\nIf we process data efficiently, the possibility of making a good decision will be very high. Nightingale\u2019s diagram is a very famous data visualization example seen historically. During the war of Crimea (1853 &#8211; 1856), Florence Nightingale served as a nurse.<br \/>\nNightingale realized that the cause of the death was more related to the poor conditions of the hospital\u2019s facilities, rather than the wounds from the battlefield. Nightingale made a remarkable report with statistical diagrams to better understand the situation, and to make the right decision. The diagram below was made by Nightingale after the Crimea war:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/images\/blog\/nightingale-1.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Let\u2019s see how this diagram will look like using Nightingale\u2019s data but in an interactive way, see the picture below (<em>Diagram for hover and click on<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p class=\"demo-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/images\/blog\/nightingale-chart-1.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"demo-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/images\/blog\/nightingale-chart-2.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even today, Nightingale\u2019s diagram is astonishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we process data efficiently, the possibility to make a good decision will be very high. Nightingale\u2019s diagram is a very famous data visualization example seen historically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"meta_title":"","meta_description":"","hc_selected_options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[1063,1094],"coauthors":[699],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-data-visualization","tag-highcharts-core"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29574,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/29574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}