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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j69ai2i wrote

Reply to comment by janellthegreat in [OC] How news stories evolve in the news cycle by PartisanPlayground

The thickness indicates the share of articles that cover each story. It sounds like I need to make this explicit on the chart.

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Segamaike t1_j69jg10 wrote

I mean. It looks lovely, but how is it surprising to you that a chart needs both axes to be labeled? Data is pointless if it’s not measurable and your most important metric isn’t even in the presentation

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j69js3w wrote

Glad it looks good. I figured the title of the chart took care of the y-axis, but I'll label it explicitly in the future. I think the x-axis is pretty clear.

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Magmagan t1_j69mhw6 wrote

I think it's pretty obvious, I hope the extra labels don't detract from the viz. Love this style, can't wait for your post next week!

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Tomoromo9 t1_j6c3t5i wrote

Why assume what is obvious when we can be purposefully obtuse?

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chasing_the_wind t1_j6a2mc2 wrote

The title took care of everything for me. I was able to make the correct assumptions on everything you did with a little hand waiving at the details I didn’t care about. What else would the axes be?

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justennn t1_j6c3nhf wrote

You still need a scale for this to mean anything. Otherwise it’s just artistic representation of data.

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dtreth t1_j6aok4o wrote

It's a proportion graph, they're not often labeled

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