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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Paul MacInnes

Making graphs from chart data: the new rock'n'roll?

LA Weekly pop graphic
One of LA Weekly's pop graphics ... that huge block in the middle is us (well, Leona Lewis and Chris Martin)

How's about this for data journalism ...

Some poor soul at LA Weekly has spent their entire waking life poring over the Billboard charts of 2008 to work out which genre was the most popular, which gender was dominant and, see above, which foreigners scored the most hits in the USofA (Clue: the Czechs came quite low down).

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