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"textContent": "OC: Earlier this month, I posted a dashboard for exploring 2.2 million New York Times articles going back to 2000. I’ve now added a way to explore all 29,000 obituaries the paper has published during that period, and it reveals a lot about who makes history. An estimated 1.5 billion people have died worldwide since [...]",
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