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salaciousoly t1_ir2uztl wrote

A few items:

  1. Why have two decimal places on your y-axis? No tick mark on the scale actually uses a decimal place.

  2. Why are there only data callouts in an oddball handful of categories? I say do them all or not at all unless you were making specific notes on those callouts.

  3. Why are the data callouts two decimal places? None of those datapoints have more than one decimal place.

  4. As others have mentioned, the color contrast is just not good. Google for color theory on charts. You can find online tools to suggest colors based on how many categories you are trying to highlight. At a minimum for this case pick two contrasting colors.

EDIT: a couple more items.

  1. The border is distracting. It serves no purpose unless this chart was being dropped into a paper or presentation. Even then, I’m doubtful it’s helpful.

  2. The punctuation on the title doesn’t seem to have much reason.

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