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Cities With Most ICE Arrests
A three-panel small-multiple line chart reconstructs average daily ICE arrests from the public FlowingData image.
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23
Fields
28
Scales
6
Layers
23
Glyphs
134
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}Resolved SceneGraph
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}Glyph Data Tree
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