datachicken

This was my second attempt at a Makeover Monday vis.  This time the dataset wasn't released until Monday, and I had plans for Tuesday night, so that only gave me Monday evening to come up with something.  However, constraints are a good thing, and the short ~4hr time window I had to dedicate to this really forced me to focus on producing something with fewer plots.  Fewer plots was in any case my goal from the last time I tried this. This time around I had other goals for this vis There were a few things I wanted to try this week, aside from the aforementioned reduction in plots: Replacing axes lines with a shaded box A dot-based leader board showing rank and distribution More story text A distinctive coloured background Single page view with no scroll bars However some goals from last week I retained: Use a restricted colour palette Maximise data-ink ratio in the plots Active titles In particular the last one seems to come up time and time again on the live vis feedback...