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Brightly Colored Bitly Map Gets Users Lost

May 17
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The Guardian’s Gay Rights Rainbow Graph

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May 9
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The Role of Data Visualization in the 2012 French Presidential Race

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May 7
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The Chronicle’s College Completion Site Gets Valedictorian

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May 3
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Feltron Annual Reports Start to Feel Like Annual Reports

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Feb 28
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LA Times’ Senti-meter Inches Towards Oscar Predictions via Twitter

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Feb 23
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Infographics for America – Displaying Data in the State of the Union

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Jan 25
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The 2012 Political Visualization Race – New Hampshire Primaries Edition

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Jan 11
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Google Zeitgeist Misses the Mark for 2011

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Dec 19
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Seeing The Spread of (Mis)information on Twitter

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Dec 8
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Can Visualization Untangle the Eurozone?

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Nov 30
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Making Music Visual: Interact with music history, taxonomy and anatomy.

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Nov 22
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A Movement of Numbers: Occupy Wall Street

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Oct 27
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Visualizing Yahoo Mail in Near Realtime

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Oct 18
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Interactive Hurricane Trackers and Transforming Viewers into Users

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Oct 6
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Visualize Hierarchical Data with a Bubble Tree

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Sep 29
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Thoughts on the Launch of Visual.ly

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Jul 15
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Make Your Own Better Life Index

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Jun 20
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Mixing the Wall Street Journal and Foursquare Produces Mixed Results

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Jun 9
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Better Census Maps with Dot-density

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Apr 18
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Understanding Scale in Radiation Dosage Charts

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Apr 3
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The Path of Protest – A Living Timeline from The Guardian

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Mar 30
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CFO Outlook Survey; Visualizing Qualitative Information

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Mar 28
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Infographic Record of 2011 Egyptian Revolution from Chartbeat

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Mar 25
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