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Really cool. A potential use I can see for this is to help people go from raw data to visuals really quickly. I'm guessing that's the intended use.

I wonder how your extension will handle scenarios with unclean data, however. What if the state labels were irregular?

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Thank you for your feedback, appreciate it! yes - for simple, we can call it Pinterest for data stories.

I haven't thought about that problem of unclean data yet, right now as prototype, the map module drops the unmatched entry after trying to identifying it as state (full or short names), county names, zip code, etc. In the future, editing distance might help improve matching.

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