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Ben Greenman’s Graphs About Charts and Charts About Graphs.

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While Ben Greenman was writing a novel that featured a character who is a chart artist, he found himself needing to both conduct research and to kill time. So he began making charts and meta-charts. Some have been featured elsewhere online. These are featured here. Laugh at the art of the graph and the chart.

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Graph #1.

BY Ben Greenman

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