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NYTimes: 2 to 1 - Germany and 1989

This is a historical visualization of the frequency of the terms 'West Germany' (yellow), 'East Germany' (red), and 'Germany' (grey) between 1981 and 2009.

 

The activity around 1989 is certainly not surprising. What is interesting to me is the far higher reference to West Germany prior to 1989 and the almost even occurrence of the phrases East and West Germany continuing to present day.

 

Built in Processing v1.0 - www.processing.org

 

For more information about this visualization and tutorials on accessing the NYTimes API with Processing, visit my blog - blog.blprnt.com

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Uploaded on February 19, 2009
Taken on February 18, 2009