_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curated by José Luis de Vicente and Olga Subirós with ZZZINC activities management. In the lead up to the opening in May 2014, CCCB LAB offers a window into the production process through a series of articles in which the curators offer a preview of the principal strands of content. ...

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Florence Nightingale, a pioneer of modern professional nursing, represented in this graphic the number of soldiers that died in the hospital that she managed during the Crimean War, from 1854 to 1856, and their cause of death. With this graphic she showed that the main causes of mortality were preventable illness- es, and this led to improvements in the h...

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