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Good Magazine: Transparency by Karen Day
Good Magazine definitely lives up to its title, so discovering their Flickr page aggregating one of our favorite regular features, spreads of their info-graphics called Transparency, feels like striking Good gold.
The colorful charts cleverly break down a host of topics—teacher salaries, energy generation, public transit, the cost of museum tickets and much more— into easily understood charts for information-addicts' browsing pleasure.
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