Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
Update: 2021-03-05
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Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns.
Her charts convinced the great and the good that deaths due to filth and poor sanitation could be averted - saving countless lives. But did Nightingale open Pandora's Box, showing that graphs persuade, whether or not they depict reality?
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I do love a good infographic. I've been trying to convince the powers that be at work recently that we have too many IT platforms. My boss wrote a long email to his bosses about the situation, but it was just TL:DR. I created a colourful diagram that showed all the different platforms snaking around in a jumble, printed it out and left it on a table in the coffee area in the office. One of the senior managers came round to ask me about it last week, saying he'd seen the diagram lying around somewhere. Passive-aggressive infographics for the win.