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Florence Nightingale was a data scientist

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Alexander Szewczak

Everyone knows Florence Nightingale as a dedicated and courageous caregiver, the founder of modern nursing.  But she was also quite a good statistician.    In 1850’s, while she served at the British military hospitals in Turkey, she instituted rigorous data collection and analysis for medical records.  She collected … Continue reading →

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