I’ll open this chart every time a plane hits turbulence
Reasonable dataset and presentation. A few thoughts:
Doesn’t need two figures after the decimal point on the y-axis scale–especially when the decimal point is hard to see.
A smoothed curve isn’t justified or appropriate for discrete data. Show the points, use bars, or show a defined and clearly described smoothing approach (5-year average, or similar) as a curve over the data.
Plot would benefit from making date information easier to read. (Perhaps use shading, colour, or typeface cues to demarcate decades.) It’s also not super-apparent exactly which year lines up with which part of the curve.
![[OC] Fatal airliner accidents per million commercial flights, World, 1970 to 2021](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/hb31tcbin8hd1-1920x1024.png)
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Data source: Our World in Data – Fatal airliner accidents per million commercial flights [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fatal-airliner-accidents-per-million-flights](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fatal-airliner-accidents-per-million-flights)
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I’ll open this chart every time a plane hits turbulence
Reasonable dataset and presentation. A few thoughts:
Doesn’t need two figures after the decimal point on the y-axis scale–especially when the decimal point is hard to see.
A smoothed curve isn’t justified or appropriate for discrete data. Show the points, use bars, or show a defined and clearly described smoothing approach (5-year average, or similar) as a curve over the data.
Plot would benefit from making date information easier to read. (Perhaps use shading, colour, or typeface cues to demarcate decades.) It’s also not super-apparent exactly which year lines up with which part of the curve.