Nightingale's Rose

Dataset for Florence Nightingale's famous polar area diagram.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/datasets-nightingales-rose

Usage

var rose = require( '@stdlib/datasets-nightingales-rose' );

rose()

Returns dataset for Florence Nightingale's famous polar area diagram.

var data = rose();
/* returns
    [
        {
            'date': '1854-04-01T07:00:00.000Z',
            'army_size': 8571,
            'disease': 1,
            'wounds': 0,
            'other': 5
        },
        ...
    ]
*/

Examples

var rose = require( '@stdlib/datasets-nightingales-rose' );

var scalar;
var data;
var d;
var i;

data = rose();

// As done by Nightingale, calculate the average annual mortality per 1000 for each cause. See http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/214.
for ( i = 0; i < data.length; i++ ) {
    d = data[ i ];
    scalar = 1000.0 * 12.0 / d.army_size;
    d.disease *= scalar;
    d.wounds *= scalar;
    d.other *= scalar;
}
console.dir( data );

References

• Nightingale, Florence. 1859. A contribution to the sanitary history of the British army during the late war with Russia. London, United Kingdom: John W. Parker and Son.

License

The data files (databases) are licensed under an Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License 1.0 and their contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal. The software is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

See Also

• @stdlib/datasets-nightingales-rose-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.

Notice

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