It looks very much like it. A shame if they did and didn't credit him.

That article is way more interesting, to boot.

I'm sorry I missed this; I would have changed the URL.

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Typical data journalism. Find someone with better data and a better article, and appropriate it.

from a quick glance at the linked GitHub repo, seems like your buddy seems to have much more data!