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Hi, I'm one of the people who worked on some of the data visualization for this story. The people behind this worked very hard and did an excellent job. I would also like to point out, this is why police transparency is very important in modern society.

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The outside blue field on the pie chart has no title when you hover over it (purchases under $5000).

And having the text be upside down for half of the chart is pretty bad (another way to do it: http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/pie-chart-...)

This comment is meant in good faith, it's an important story and topic and visualizing the impact is very useful. I appreciate the work that went into it.

edit: I just noticed you can click on the fields, very cool!

Thanks for the suggestions, I didn't think about flipping the text for that half of the chart but that's a good idea. I'm not sure about the blank label but I'll look into that.

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