Florence Nightingale

FlorenceNightingale - inventor of the Pie Chart, and the use of statistics. Also a nurse or something.


Not quite the inventor. See this link for details http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/historical.html


She actually used [and invented?] a type of pie-chart known as a coxcomb:


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