More annotations​

Here is a Guardian graphic chart followed by the Remarkable Charts version.

We're currently working to simple annotations to our charts. I noticed that Flourish recently improved their support for adding annotations and thought that this would make for a good comparison.

The data for this chart comes from Google Trends and looks at interest over time in the search term "brexit".

Google Trends does a fine job of showing the data in the chart above. What we'd like to do is highlight some significant dates for the reader.

Let's annotate​

Here is the Flourish chart followed by the Remarkable Chart version.

Straight away we can see the Flourish version is easier to understand, but in what ways?

On 1 January, Britain will stop following EU rules, and will have a new trade relationship with Europe. An article by BBC News discusses the effect on everyone's shopping basket.

Let's take a look at a chart featured in the article and reproduce it with Remarkable Charts.

Where does our food come from?​

Unusually for the BBC the execution is sloppy. The image is cut off on the left and right edges. The source is also incorrect. There is no gov.co.uk, rather it should be gov.uk. However, let's ignore these issues and focus on what the chart does well.

Here is the from page of the Independent newspaper from the 31 July 2020.

Here is our reproduction.

Last time we looked at reproducing this chart showing the change in transport use in the UK.

Here is our first attempt.

And here is the latest version.

The daily UK government Coronavirus briefings usually feature a set of slides. These slides and the datasets used to produce them are made available to the public.

This will be our second look at reproducing a chart from the slides with Remarkable Charts. The chart shows the change in tranport use for motor vehicles in Great Britain. It's one of five charts on one slide showing various forms of transport. Thefore the original is quite small and makes for a pixelated screenshot.

Annotations​

We're currently working on adding annotations to our charts and this is a great example. Immediately we can see where lockdown started, as well as the start of the easing of restrictions (step 1 and step 2). We can also see additional infromation conveyed by the grey bands behind the chart. These represent weekends and we can see traffic dropping during some weekends.

Here is our reproduction.

Last time we looked at recreating a chart from the UK's daily coronavirus briefings. We identified a few issues with our recreation and now we can look at if we've been able to address them.

As a reminder here is the original chart.

The daily UK government Coronavirus briefings usually feature a set of slides. These slides and the datasets used to produce them are made available to the public.

Let's take a look at a chart contained in the slides and try out best to reproduce it in Remarkable Charts. We're still in the development phase so this is very much a work-in-progress but this type of comparison is one of the key ways we ensure the quality of the product is up to scratch.

Apple mobility trends data for UK​

This chart looks at the how people are getting about. It uses the number of requests for directions as a proxy for activity.

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