What’s the top line? AL, or HI, or NJ or SD?
Whats the 2nd line? CA or IL or NY?
Terrible chart
Cool can totally tell each state by its unique color, not confusing or useless graph at all!
Interesting plot, but the legend is useless since there are 5 copies of every color. Maybe if you sorted the legend by final housing cost so it could line up with the end of the figure, even then it’s going to be tough.
Unreadable color key. Either label them directly or break it into tranches to make them easier to understand.
The data may be beautiful but there’s nothing beautiful about this plot. Colors are so close. Practically impossible for a human to tell which is what.
There are so many colors to choose, why did you make some identical. You only needed 50
As someone who is colorblind, all I can think “Man, those are a lot of lines.”
Beautiful in the same way that all the colors of the rainbow additively combine to form grey
This data is decidedly not beautiful. There are way too many lines too close together, and too many colors which are similar. Aside from the top line or two, none of it is readable. A mess.
Hard to follow, honestly. You should use a map chart of the US by state instead to make it visually clearer, or perhaps focus only on the top X states (or the most interesting states) if you really want to use a line chart to show data over the years.
Respectfully, this data is not very beautiful
Data might be beautiful but this chart is more of a shart.
When colors double up, use a hashed line or something.
For colorblind people like me, this is impossible to read. I would need an eyedropper tool to find the hexcode of every color. I bet normal vision folks would also have trouble with it.
Idk how to present all this info, but at least there shouldn’t be a legend with this much info. Put the labels in the chart near the lines at least. And all the lines at the bottom need to be broken up – that portion would still be unreadable even if you put labels in the chart.
It’s also probably best as an interactive chart rather than a static one. Like if you hovered your mouse over one line, it would highlight it and its state and the others would fade away.
Also I wonder if there’s other data you could present that might convey similar information better, like maybe the % above or below a state’s median housing cost relative to the nation’s median housing cost (which would be a line down the middle at 0%)? No guarantee it would be more readable though…
Far too many lines and colors, it is impossible to actually CHECK the data on any one state.
The data might be beautiful, but the chart is unreadable. Please, work on the presentation.
![[OC] Median House Prices from 2000-2025 in the U.S. by State](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/js6ij9sf9gxe1.png)
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Damn didn’t know Alabama was this expensive
What’s the top line? AL, or HI, or NJ or SD?
Whats the 2nd line? CA or IL or NY?
Terrible chart
Cool can totally tell each state by its unique color, not confusing or useless graph at all!
Interesting plot, but the legend is useless since there are 5 copies of every color. Maybe if you sorted the legend by final housing cost so it could line up with the end of the figure, even then it’s going to be tough.
Unreadable color key. Either label them directly or break it into tranches to make them easier to understand.
The data may be beautiful but there’s nothing beautiful about this plot. Colors are so close. Practically impossible for a human to tell which is what.
There are so many colors to choose, why did you make some identical. You only needed 50
As someone who is colorblind, all I can think “Man, those are a lot of lines.”
Beautiful in the same way that all the colors of the rainbow additively combine to form grey
This data is decidedly not beautiful. There are way too many lines too close together, and too many colors which are similar. Aside from the top line or two, none of it is readable. A mess.
Hard to follow, honestly. You should use a map chart of the US by state instead to make it visually clearer, or perhaps focus only on the top X states (or the most interesting states) if you really want to use a line chart to show data over the years.
Respectfully, this data is not very beautiful
Data might be beautiful but this chart is more of a shart.
When colors double up, use a hashed line or something.
For colorblind people like me, this is impossible to read. I would need an eyedropper tool to find the hexcode of every color. I bet normal vision folks would also have trouble with it.
Idk how to present all this info, but at least there shouldn’t be a legend with this much info. Put the labels in the chart near the lines at least. And all the lines at the bottom need to be broken up – that portion would still be unreadable even if you put labels in the chart.
It’s also probably best as an interactive chart rather than a static one. Like if you hovered your mouse over one line, it would highlight it and its state and the others would fade away.
Also I wonder if there’s other data you could present that might convey similar information better, like maybe the % above or below a state’s median housing cost relative to the nation’s median housing cost (which would be a line down the middle at 0%)? No guarantee it would be more readable though…
Far too many lines and colors, it is impossible to actually CHECK the data on any one state.
The data might be beautiful, but the chart is unreadable. Please, work on the presentation.
Edit: o3 is amazing – it offered detailed analysis of time series clustering methods and this link among them: https://medium.com/%40ryassminh/clustering-time-series-analysis-of-housing-prices-in-bexar-county-tx-from-1996-to-2020-9ec278346384
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