The second graph is a little better but even in that one the very similarly coloured blue lines cross each other so you have to really look closely to figure out which is which.
The second graph is a little better but even in that one the very similarly coloured blue lines cross each other so you have to really look closely to figure out which is which.
I tried one of datawrapper's sample data sets, "Gender pay gap" and added a couple of extra columns. The resulting line graph has four shades of blue.
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/g98Jd/1/
(There are "base color" and "customize colors" buttons so the author could have changed this. Seems like a nice little app).
I guess the point is ... I've seen many, many examples of worse graphs, graphs where the point was obscured or graphs that were deliberately misleading; so I'm trying to figure out how these two are worthy of appearing in a presentation.