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Friday 05 Aug 2011: Florence Nightingale and pie charts
Even though Florence Nightingale used pie charts to try to convince politicians around 1858, she is often wrongly attributed as being their inventor. Pie charts were first published by the Scottish engineer William Playfair in 1801, who also invented the line graph and bar chart of economic data.

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