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Dave Murphy shares news of a new animated bar graph that traces the population of the world's most populated cities over a span of 500 years.
John Burns-Murdoch created the graphic for the Financial Times, making the code for the graph available online and presenting the result in the video above.
FULL STORY: This animation of the world’s most populous cities over 500 years is mesmerizing
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