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#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data

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When Should You Use an Area Chart Versus a Line Graph?

Edward Taffte is the main person who's been researching this and writing about this for a very long time. He says you should always question especially when you produce a chart with a default setting in a programming language. "I think that comes down to that comes down very often to just getting used to it"

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