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Off the Charts newsletter: Why Python is the best coding language for data journalism
This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data journalism and the ideas, processes and tools that go into creating it.
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