Interactive Data Viz Project Explores Every Episode of Seinfeld

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A data visualization project has been published online, offering an interactive exploration of the television series Seinfeld. The project, hosted at seinfeld.visualisingdata.com, appears to break down and map data from across the show's run. It was shared on Hacker News, where it received 24 upvotes and a small number of comments. The project falls within the growing genre of fan-driven data analysis applied to popular culture. No author or publication date details were provided in the available source material.

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