I was taken to the Florence Nightingale's Wiki page during a recent research, and one of the interesting things I noted was her contribution to statistics. It came to me as a pleasant surprise that she is credited with inventing the polar area diagram , or occasionally the Nightingale rose diagram, which is equivalent to a modern circular histogram. Following the completion of my project and in my weekend to spare, I devoted time to recreating the chart in Excel. It took a combination of Doughnut-Pie-and XY charts and close to four hours to finish it. The colours are a bit darker, the values are approximate and the labels differently oriented, yet the chart looks fairly close to the original as is shown by the picture below.
This used to be a blog about data visualization using MS Excel. I have moved on from adding new articles to it because it is no longer a part of my core professional responsibility. That said, this blog remains a memoir of wonderful times in my life and I hope the charts give you the same joy and inspiration I enjoyed while creating them. Thank you for visiting.