this is a pretty good data viz actually, the spiral allows them to
a. pack information more densely without sacrificing readability
b. colocate corresponding time periods, demonstrating periodicity
just bc their politics suck doesn't mean their tech does too
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RT @FreedZach
literally no reason to make this graph into a spiral
https://twitter.com/FreedZach/status/1479132573578240001
yeah here we go
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RT @_EDRichardson
@FreedZach I dunno, I like it - the spiral makes *much* more economical use of the space restrictions in newspapers layouts than histograms, lines plots, etc. Stacking years would invite bad comparisons of months across years, leaving it all on one x-axis would just be insane
https://twitter.com/_EDRichardson/status/1479170607673757697
