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I like how the bar chart has a shadow 'total' behind the two groups

• infecto 9y ago
  That chart actually force me to look at the key multiple times. Perhaps I am tired but I kept wanting to use the top key "female" for the top line within the chart....strange.
  • rm445 9y ago
    The obvious way to make the charts easier to interpret would be to use pink and blue. Who knows why the author used green and yellow - feels 'blue for a boy and pink for a girl' is outdated and sexist, or just likes green and yellow better, or they're the default from their charting program, or a chosen colour scheme for the blog. But there's no doubt (for readers in the English-speaking world and who knows how many countries) what would be clearer, to the point of hardly needing a key.
• yathern 9y ago
  I'm glad it has 'total' - but for this type of data, I'd prefer it it looked something more like [this](https://www.livepopulation.com/images/chart_sex_ratio_india.png https://www.livepopulation.com/images/chart_sex_ratio_india....) where distribution and total size are both easily viewable
  • autokad 9y ago
    that has its benefits, but you also loose the ability to see the difference between men and women across the distribution. like the ratio at 70+ vs the ratio at 0-4
    • yathern 9y ago
      True - I tried to find an example where it was centered horizontally - but couldn't quickly. Ideally I would like this (ignore the terrible paint job and alpha channel messing things up): https://imgur.com/B6enQhw https://imgur.com/B6enQhw Where you see both volume, distribution, percent, as well as the trendline (white) where you can see how the distribution changes - how the total count changes, and easily understand any data point at any given spot.