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Top Grossing Movies (2017)
Highest-grossing films with unadjusted and inflation-adjusted gross — a lesson about units hiding inside a fun dataset.
Top-grossing movies as of 2017 with studio, year, gross, and inflation-adjusted gross.
Sorting by the two gross columns gives two very different “greatest of all time” lists — a memorable first encounter with the idea that the units and adjustments you choose are the argument.
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