![]() ![]() In the final graph, I removed the gridlines altogether. This is looking better, right? The data stands out more than in the initial version, where there was no visual hierarchy to help direct our attention. ![]() ![]() I justified the graph title and y-axis title at upper leftmost because in Western cultures most people read from left to right, top to bottom this makes it so the audience encounters how to read the graph before they get to the actual data. I also pushed the axes and gridlines to the background by making them grey and tied the title of the graph visually to the trend line by making the title the same shade of blue. ![]() In the second chart, I stripped out a bit of clutter by eliminating the chart border and reducing the labels and tick marks on the x-axis. The first chart is what I get when I plot my data in Excel (using my mac). ![]()
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