Nice plot! A suggestion: try to avoid having too many series with similar colors (e.g., Piemonte, Toscana, Campania). Colorblind palettes can be useful to diversify colors and improve accessibility (these series with similar colors can be even harder to interpret for colorblind people). Here’s a nice blogpost about it: [https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#%23D81B60-%231E88E5-%23FFC107-%23004D40](https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#%23D81B60-%231E88E5-%23FFC107-%23004D40)
eric5014 on
Why were those southern regions higher than the others?
Why are they all the same now?
SvenDia on
Just checked and the pill became available on the black market in Italy in 1963, and was made legal in 1971. Interesting how the decline bottomed out in the mid 80s for the more northern provinces, while it didn’t happen for the southern provinces until a decade later, and then they all line up around 2006.
Would be curious if any Italians can explain why. From what I’ve heard, there was a pretty wide cultural divergence between northern and southern Italy, but that has decreased in the last few decades, and I wonder if this graph is showing that in some way.
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Nice plot! A suggestion: try to avoid having too many series with similar colors (e.g., Piemonte, Toscana, Campania). Colorblind palettes can be useful to diversify colors and improve accessibility (these series with similar colors can be even harder to interpret for colorblind people). Here’s a nice blogpost about it: [https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#%23D81B60-%231E88E5-%23FFC107-%23004D40](https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#%23D81B60-%231E88E5-%23FFC107-%23004D40)
Why were those southern regions higher than the others?
Why are they all the same now?
Just checked and the pill became available on the black market in Italy in 1963, and was made legal in 1971. Interesting how the decline bottomed out in the mid 80s for the more northern provinces, while it didn’t happen for the southern provinces until a decade later, and then they all line up around 2006.
Would be curious if any Italians can explain why. From what I’ve heard, there was a pretty wide cultural divergence between northern and southern Italy, but that has decreased in the last few decades, and I wonder if this graph is showing that in some way.