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thehourglasses t1_jedgi93 wrote

Honestly, this would look way better plotted as assets value vs. time. No one cares how many banks fail, just how much damage was done in real terms. The number of failures is extraneous and makes the chart look unnecessarily complicated. Simple is (almost) always better.

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tomaskutac OP t1_jedhiys wrote

Message of this visualization is that failure of few big banks was followed by failures of many banks. Without number of banks message will be incomplete. Any suggestions how to cover these three dimensions in one visualization? Time, Value and number of banks.

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thehourglasses t1_jedjky8 wrote

Fair enough.

Dual axis line graph with total assets on x1 and # of failures on x2, either 2 different colors for the lines or solid and dashed. Y remains as time.

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