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Red books and blue books
Valdis Krebs uses data from Amazon to draw a network map of books related to current politics. Two books are linked if they were bought together. Like other maps this one shows the red and the blue. Notice how few books link the clusters. Click on the image to expand.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on February 4, 2004 at 08:11 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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