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Very interesting work! Just a quick note, for this kind of evenly spaced, discrete X data, stairs plots are usually better. For instance this highlights better the 13th floor issue, which in the line plot was obscured: https://i.imgur.com/cSjT5xx.png

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I agree that a stepped line graph is better that a line graph, but since the data is discrete and not continuous a lollipop chart or maybe a bar chart would convey it better.

Monty from xiph.org learned me that: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml @ 5:57

Also a good option, although they seem a bit "busy" for my taste when Y values are very close: https://i.imgur.com/4ePNXbp.png

As an R aficionado, I totally agree, but it's not available on Metabase yet, which is the front-end I want to offer non-technical clients to visualise data. I should put in a PR...

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