This thing is so much fun to play with ... could spend *a lot* of time here. But how do we make things relevant to specific niche audiences with it? Can we? Is there a point?

We were talking about doing a 2D version of this for arms traffic between US states, using the supercommuters code wnyc.org

That'd be fun, Steven. Fun. Lots of.

And we did it! Here's the issue, the discussion, and the map made by the @datanews team: wnyc.org

Think it worked?

That was one of my favorite visualizations of the series.