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“We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well.”

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David Mccandless
David Mccandless

David Mccandless is a journalist, but the specifics of his life and career are currently unknown. more

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