Timeline for How should I visualize the average of two bars in a bar chart?
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Madalina Taina | This is the solution that is used in some popular libraries, like highcarts, so it must be pretty common... For me, the most elegant solution for average is a vertical line for every set of data, 1 px width, in the middle, but only if the evolution is not important. If on the x-axis are month, for example, the evolution of the average is ok to be visualized as a line graph. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 7:48 | comment | added | Eric Duminil | @AdamChalcraft exactly. It suggests that UFO is the average of FB and SAT, for example. | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 5:31 | comment | added | Adam Chalcraft | Personally, I hate joining things up with a line if the x axis is not naturally totally ordered. It’s very misleading. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 19:20 | comment | added | Glorfindel | Personally, I wouldn't be inclined to interpolate, because the chart shows bars as well. But YMMV. Perhaps using a dashed or dotted line would help? | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 11:14 | comment | added | Kilian Obermeier | Thank you for this suggestion! I like that it highlights the performance difference between neighboring methods. On the other hand, the curve might suggest some kind of trend, as if the x-axis would display a numeric quantity. However, interpolating between two methods does not really make sense. Do you have an idea of how to fix this? | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 11:03 | history | answered | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |