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Congrats to Daniel Gumbiner and his book The Boatbuilder, which has just been long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award For Fiction!

February 20, 2013
Ben Greenman’s Graphs About Charts and Charts About Graphs

Graph #33:
How Much of This Very Complex, Sophisticated, Multicolored Graph is Obscured by Blackness?

BEN GREENMAN

 

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