Baseline Chart

It’s like a line chart, but it specifically uses a reference point, which becomes the baseline, to compare all the other categories to.

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Examples

Republican and Democrat follower counts on Twitter

You might have heard that Elon Musk bought Twitter, and among the many…

Indicators for a recession

People disagree whether the United States is in a recession or not, because…

Declining U.S. Births

The number of births per month has been decreasing over the past decade. The pandemic seems to have sped up the process in the beginning.

Rising prices of everything

Using Consumer Price Index, Alyssa Fowers and Rachel Siegel for The Washington Post…

Visits to businesses compared year-over-year in each state

Businesses are still seeing visits mostly down compared to last year, which shouldn’t…

Occupation Growth and Decline

We looked at shifts in job distribution over the past several decades, but it was difficult to see by how much each occupation group changed individually. This chart makes the changes more obvious.

Bachelor’s Degree Movers

As industries change and interests shift, some bachelor's degrees grow more popular while others become less so.