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UsandoFXOS OP t1_j48yksm wrote

Reply to comment by jakubkonecki in [OC] Heavy Metal bands in Spanish-speaking countries · Jan'2023 by UsandoFXOS

i've passed several hours thinking about it in the past, but finally i decided that the "continuity" of the line (orange in this case) is more "appropriate" to render the MAIN METRIC on the graph. For this reason i put it so.

In other words, i would say the opposite to your comment: the orange line stands out above the "chaotic" bars, so it helps to focus first on the orange metric (in this case "bands/unhabitant".

Where i still have doubts is about where to put each Y axis. Which at left and which at right. I think that maybe in this graph i did it wrong... it probably would be better put the MAIN METRIC on the LEFT Y axis.

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jakubkonecki t1_j4an9ws wrote

The line didn't "stand out" for me, especially since the Y axis is on the right hand side. I read from left to right, so I first noticed the values for the bars.

Also, country labels are much closer to the bars than the line, so when I started reading country names from left to right I was confused why they are not in order: neither alphabetical nor according to the primary Y axis (left hand side).

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