This would have worked better with a logarithmic scale. It’s hard to see what’s going on from the 2020s. Could use more color variety too. It’s impossible to tell what’s going on in the legend.
When does Britains last coal plant go down? I can’t tell. Annotations could be helpful here.
>The site – a landmark in the East Midlands – has been producing energy since 1967, enough to make more than one billion cups of tea per day.
And people say the US needs wacky units of measurement.
color scheme makes no real sense for this. notwithstanding the choices of green and grayscale, you usually use a diverging color scale when you want to communicate that a data point is above or below some important middle/median value. what is the significance of 10% of power coming from coal?
Was a line graph too plain to use? This jumble of data took me 3 minutes to interpret.
Just as electricity prices are the highest in the world, data in this case, is not beautiful, God help us.
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[The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant](https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252195/last-coal-power-plant-close-climate-change-clean-energy)
UK electricity data from [here](https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/)
Code is r package ggplot2 a slightly modified version [of my earlier code ](https://gist.github.com/cavedave/2b99bd3b4e966c4f0211b6544a948026)
Graph was originally inspired by this which i saw as an image and then later [tracked down who made it to here ](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/may/25/the-power-switch-tracking-britains-record-coal-free-run)
Coal power is [not great for your lungs](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31267832/)
This would have worked better with a logarithmic scale. It’s hard to see what’s going on from the 2020s. Could use more color variety too. It’s impossible to tell what’s going on in the legend.
When does Britains last coal plant go down? I can’t tell. Annotations could be helpful here.
>The site – a landmark in the East Midlands – has been producing energy since 1967, enough to make more than one billion cups of tea per day.
And people say the US needs wacky units of measurement.
color scheme makes no real sense for this. notwithstanding the choices of green and grayscale, you usually use a diverging color scale when you want to communicate that a data point is above or below some important middle/median value. what is the significance of 10% of power coming from coal?
Was a line graph too plain to use? This jumble of data took me 3 minutes to interpret.
Just as electricity prices are the highest in the world, data in this case, is not beautiful, God help us.