đź“Ś Style 1 (Original style of General government)
đź“Ś Style 2
đź“Ś Style 3
Comparison of 3 styles:
- Style 1 is a simple bar chart where each country’s debt to GDP ratio represents a column. Even though it’s well sorted and easy to tell the top 1 country is Japan, the large number of columns still make the chart lenthy; besides, the country names are laid out in a inclined manner, which makes it hard to tell which column belongs to which country.
- Style 2 is a grid line chart where each line represents each country’s changes of debt to GDP ratio over the years. Final year’s data shown in dot to emphasize the latest debt level. However, since all countries’s situation are shown, it’s still hard to compare one to the other.
- Style 3 is a grid highlighted bar chart where each column represents each year’s average of continents’ debt to GDP ratio. Fewer categories make it easier to compare ratios between continents and highlighted column emphasized the ratio of latest year. However, simplifying the chart and grouping by continents also sacrifice the detail of data, for example, we cannot tell that Japan has the highest debt to GDP ratio now.