Clutter

A recent article in The Economist is titled Women alone are driving a recovery in workforce participation. An accompanying graph is suggestive but far too cluttered.

Long point labels usually don’t work. A horizontal bar or a dot graph would work well for the long category names. Unfortunately neither is available in Excel. This graph provides the idea.

The evidence is a bit more nuanced. The one category dominated by women had the largest growth. The three categories dominated by men had the smallest growth. The more mixed categories had mixed growth.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *