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While we’re redoing some classics, here is the time series of assault deaths in the United States and eighteen other OECD countries from 1960 to 2020. Again, this is the sort of plot that you could choose to draw in a variety of ways depending on what it was that you wanted to emphasize. Code and data for this way of doing it are available on GitHub.
The visualization exercise of the day for class is a re-creation of a figure I first saw Lane Kenworthy make. It’s a connected scatterplot of total health spending in real terms and life expectancy of the population as a whole. The fact that real spending and expectancy tend to steadily increase for most countries in most years makes the year-to-year connections work even though they’re not labeled as such.