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Lately, we've been going down a rabbit hole of data about place names in the US. Here, we can take our New England town establishment data into Rowboat and do two cool things: see a detailed county map and play it over time to see the northward spread of towns in the area, all in just 15 seconds.

29/5/26, 5:58 pm1 repost0 likes

Fathom Information Design

@fathom.info

29 May

To do this handy "filter preview" trick, hold down Alt or Option while hovering over an entry in a histogram, bar chart, or map list. You can play with the file here: rowbo.at/2qopaqgc Note on data: this is cobbled together from individual tables on states' history or genealogy sites.

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