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Rethinking some charts

Rethinking some charts

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Rethinking some charts

- [Instructor] Now I'm going to share a bunch of examples of charts and show you the originals pretty much as I found them and then walk through how I redesigned them, applying the principles we've been talking about for the entire course. I know you're probably getting tired of hearing me say it, but it's important, the main point here is to simplify, to do less, to know what you really want to say and make sure you really draw focus there. So here we have a chart. The scenario here is we have, let's say, data from two companies, one's a manufacturer and one's a retailer, and they've agreed to sell the products at a certain price. The retailer's trying to make the point that when they are under contract to sell the product at a certain price they adhered to those rules and when they weren't under contract to do so they actually adhered at an even higher rate. So they were doing a good job, even though they weren't…

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