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Animation Illustrates the Growth of the World's Most Populous Cities Over 500 Years
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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.
Published on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 in
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