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 was 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.