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posted 21 June 2021 09:20 AM
New Yorker asks you to sign up for an account, but even if you don't, you can still see article if you keep scrolling. A little awkward but works....

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When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death

Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems.


https://www.newyorker.com/maga...er-of-life-and-death


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posted 22 June 2021 02:13 PMHide Post
It's often interesting that something that seems so simple in retrospect took a long time for someone to imagine it and put it to use. I think the concept of zero in a number system would be another example.

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