I love this graph. I had just landed my first programming gig in a statistical startup when this was published and I remember how inspired we were at seeing it.

I love this graph. I had just landed my first programming gig in a statistical startup when this was published and I remember how inspired we were at seeing it. It really opened our eyes to how useful animation can be in data visualization. So much so that we started migrating many of the graphs we had in R to D3. Here is an example of a graph we did where we blatantly ripped off one of mbostock’s other NYTimes graphs: https://husnaedi.gangverd.is/en/ https://husnaedi.gangverd.is/en/