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Changed the home page appearance.</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Oct 16, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">FlowmapBlue<!-- --> <a href="http://informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/3815-flowmap-blue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">made it to the shortlist</a> <!-- -->of the Information is Beautiful Awards</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Oct 13, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">Talk<!-- --> <a href="https://ilya.boyandin.me/talks/2019-10-11-urban-mobility-symp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Scalability of OD-data visualizations”</a> <!-- -->about FlowmapBlue and<!-- --> <a href="https://github.com/teralytics/flowmap.query" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">flowmap.query</a> at the<!-- --> <a href="https://www.citylab-berlin.org/events/mobilitysymposium_en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Urban Mobility Symposium</a> <!-- -->in Berlin</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Sep 15, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">Added color scheme and dark mode support</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Mar 26, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">Adding support for map styles</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Mar 24, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">Automatic clustering</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Mar 03, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo"><a href="https://ilya.boyandin.me/talks/2019-03-03-clisel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Talk about FlowmapBlue</a> <!-- -->at the workshop on<!-- --> <a href="https://clisel.eu/Ascona" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Environmental Changes and Human Mobility</a> in Ascona</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Feb 08, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">Added animation toggle</div></div><div class="css-1sg2lsz"><div class="css-1uelvhf">Jan 03, 2019</div><div class="css-1i82ydo">First published online</div></div></div></section></div></div>

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