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Animating changes over time

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Animating changes over time

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- [Instructor] So the other day I was online and I came across a very cool example of data vis that I want to share with you guys. I found it on the PewResearchCenter site, which is an organization that captures a lot of US politics and policy related data. And basically they had this really cool piece about political polarization and they built out this animated visual that I thought was just the coolest thing ever. It's a really great example of using overlapping area charts and animating them over time to tell a really clear story. And what we're looking at here is basically Democrat and Republican viewpoints in terms of being consistently liberal versus consistently conservative. And essentially what this area chart is doing is it's almost acting like a dual histogram where you're seeing the distribution of two different datasets changing over time, as well as the overlap between them. And so they've got five different years in the sample and as you page through you can see how…

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