heroesofdata

Perhaps this seems inevitable when his observations seem supernatural, but he knew that his brilliant explanations had to be based on data; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of Sherlock Holmes, ensured that Holmes knew that to start making conclusions before you had the data would be a monumental blunder.

Florence Nightingale not only collected data but applied statistical methods to help understand its true meaning and developed ways to present it in a graphical form that highlighted its meaning.