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From internet trolls to college dropouts: Our 6 favorite charts from 2017

  • Written by Aviva Rutkin, Big Data + Applied Mathematics Editor
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As the year comes to an end, we rounded up some of our favorite graphs and maps from archival articles The Conversation published in 2017.

1. Invisible inequality

America may be getting richer, but who’s reaping the reward? The economic gap in the U.S. has widened over the past few decades....

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