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Introduction: From Nathan Yau . I love this stuff. It’s just wonderful, a great set of visualizations on a great topic. Offhand, the only suggestions I have are to scale the graphs or indicate in some way the trends in the total popularity of each name (as it is, I wonder if some of the variation is arising from rarity), also to me the girl color looks a bit orangish and I’d go for something more purely pink. P.S. These graphs are pretty good too.
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