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(It’s really a seaborn scatter plot!)

Part of an “Age of Congress” scatter plot (all images by the author)

Whenever I need inspiration for effective visualizations, I browse The Economist, the Visual Capitalist, or The Washington Post. During one of these forays, I ran across an interesting infographic — similar to the one shown above — that plotted the age of each member of the US Congress against their generational cohort.