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Immigration in Democrat counties
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Rowboat for fast CSV exploration
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Political leanings of first and last names
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Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts
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Visualization always involves trade-offs between audience, insights, and resources. Sometimes you make the wrong choice.
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Retirement Ages by Country
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Improving axes on a chart
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When Americans Stop Working
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Spell your name with satellite imagery
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Atlas of Design, Volume 7
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Mapping Course Updates; When the Data Speaks But Doesn’t Have Much to Say
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Fingers for scale
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Where the Crops Grow
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Making unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated
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AI feedback loop to nowhere
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Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds
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Barren Land
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Focusing Off Defaults
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Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game
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Weight of cars and fatalities
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