I love the New York Times.. they have done such a great job at putting design at the core of what they do.
For example.. ever since they opened up the API to there data, we are having amazing creative bit s of work.

These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.

Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API.

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