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- ↑ Borkiewicz, Kalina; Christensen, AJ; Stone, John (2017). "Communicating science through visualization in an age of alternative facts". ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses. pp. 1–204. doi: 10.1145/3084873.3084935 . ISBN 9781450350143.
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