[OC] Change in the Life Expectancy Ranking of Various Countries Over Time.

ok wow Palestine just FELL

Shouldn’t the labels on the vertical access have 1 at the top and 237 at the bottom?

How did you choose which countries to include and which to exclude?

And how did you choose which 4 countries to include in each graph? Just random?

Wouldn’t it be better to group countries onto the same graph which either started out in 1950 at about the same Average Life Expectancy or ended up last year at about the same Average Life Expectancy?

Or perhaps grouping countries onto charts by continent/region?

I’m sorry for being mean but these graphs have some critical flaws – the legend is so small it’s practically unreadable, no axis labels, the grid is too dense and makes the graph look overcrowded and overbearing on the eyes.

Besides, “change in life expectancy ranking” is a weird and unclear variable that is also dependant on other countries (ex. If china drops down, all the countries it passed when dropping go one rank up) and therefore less informative than simply “life expectancy” which is way clearer and much more informative and understandable.

Another less critical point is that it would be better if each country was in a different color and not in the same four repeating colors so that the data would be more engaging.