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Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West
July 5, 2011
By Geoff McGhee and Krissy Clark
Created for the Rural West Initiative's report on newspapers in the West, his visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers.
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<p>Created for the Rural West Initiative's report on newspapers in the West, his visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers. </p>
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Krissy Clark
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<p>Created for the Rural West Initiative's report on newspapers in the West, his visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers. </p>
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