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05/11/2018

FastCompany

This crazily complex image shows the online footprint of all 50 states

It’s so much data, the scientists behind the image had to invent a new type of visualization. The U.S. is a collection of bureaucracies that’s bafflingly complex. But political scientists need to find ways to visualize the structure of the government so they can understand how–and if–it works. A new paper proposes a novel way to do this: By mapping the connections between all the government bodies on the state level through their online presences.