I really pushed hard on the design with this effort. That said the idea / look wasn't original. I struggled finding an angle so I took to my viz library and settled on a design by Nicholas Felton. Whilst the data he used was different, the visual communication style suited the data and I also saw a challenge in trying to recreate that style in Tableau.
ReadThis week I had a go at the weekly challenge set as part of the makeover Monday community. Had lots of fun doing this, it started as a line chart then ended up as total overuse of reference lines. That said it sort of works.
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