In Can You Improve this Graph Showing Suicide Rates in Japan?, Nathan of FlowingData shows a chart of long-term unemployment rates and suicide rates in Japan. The chart comes from Suicide Epidemic in Japan.

What’s wrong with this chart (which I’ve reproduced below)?

Axis label is faulty. “Japan and Suicide Rate” should be “Japan Long Term [...]

In yesterday’s post, Add a Target Line, I showed how to add a simple horizontal line target indicator to a chart. What if your target isn’t constant. I’m not talking about your boss’ moving target, but a case illustrated by the following dummy data. Our company makes widgets, which are more popular in spring and [...]