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I think the graph is way too busy with the interactive elements and animations. Get rid of the legend box hopping over the data I want to see. In fact, the whole interactivity is pretty useless: the user does not really interact with anything, you're just hovering stuff over the graph. Just utterly pointless.

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"Utterly pointless" is a bit harsh. Interactivity in a line graph is useful because it helps the user understand the value of any chosen point.

But I do agree that one way to improve this is to make the key static, moved off to the side so that it does not obfuscate the graph.

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