They are made up of peaks and troughs that take us from plateaus to reflections. They beg the world to level with them, painting the human dramas now playing out or to come. Whether you watched or escaped these waves that overwhelmed the media during the Covid pandemic, they have become an important public health tool. These are epidemic curves that peaked in the mid-19th centurye century, especially from the pen of Dr. Arthur Ransome in Manchester.
Ransom did not invent the data graph. Before him, and among others, William Playfer, the economist-engineer turned journalist, blackmailer and revolutionary in 1789 Paris, had given birth to the pie chart, curves and lines. A century later, the British nurse Florence Nightingale showed, thanks to a “Diagram of the causes of mortality in the armies of the East” that far more soldiers died from preventable diseases than from injuries…
Source: Le Figaro
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