#TweakThursday 28: Ordering by Focus

A MakeoverMonday viz is excellent as follows. The 2nd week's data set of year 2017 is on the iPhone unit sales trends. The author Haiping is from our MakeoverMonday Data Camp.

The only pet peeve I have is about the vertical year order. My thought is that we care more about the latest change in sales. That is the focus of the analysis. We need to arrange the chart so that the latest year is at focus. So I suggested the author to make the latest year on top. 

The author Haiping gracefully made the change. Here is the result.

Click the picture to see the interactive version.

It seems ordering is one of my great pet peeves. I wrote the following:

Ordering by Narrative

Ordering by Context

Changing the sort order is easy. It does make a difference in highlighting the focus.