Waterfall Charts: A Better Alternative to Line/Bar Plot
If you want to visualize a value over some period, a line (or bar) plot may not always be an apt choice.
A line-plot (or bar-plot) depicts the actual values in the chart. Thus, sometimes, it can get difficult to visually estimate the scale of incremental changes.
Instead, you can use a waterfall chart, which elegantly depicts these rolling differences.
To create one, you can use 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹_𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁 in Python. Here, the start and final values are represented by the first and last bars. Also, the marginal changes are automatically color-coded, making them easier to interpret.
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