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EspritFort t1_irvchei wrote

Best not connect datapoints into a continuous graph if the connection doesn't mean anything. These things are not on a cardinal scale.

In that case columns are usually more appropriate than a graph.

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meller12_3 OP t1_irvcll1 wrote

I used a line graph since I ordered the movies in chronological order, so over time it shows that A24 movies were bringing in less and less box office success

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Tordoix t1_irvtwk3 wrote

Still interpolation between two points in your graph makes no sense since they are discrete (i.e. there is no 'in between' two movies). A line graph always interpolates between the datapoints suggesting there are continuous values in between the datapoints, so the usage here does not make much sense. You can still see the decrease in box office success in a bar chart.

If you wanted to show the decrease in box office earnings over time then you could just plot the box office earnings of A24 over time and maybe colorize the contributions of each movie or something like that, if that data is available of course.

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JPAnalyst t1_irvup0f wrote

Or just the circles without the line would be cool too. That would work here, right?

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Tordoix t1_irvvah0 wrote

Sure it would work too. It is less visible than a bar chart though, so I'd not prefer that visualization.

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[deleted] t1_irvnyuw wrote

It's not apparent that the entries are ordered chronologically. Also, why not include other A24 films?

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