#line graphs

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F1q5jzj36p,%2Fg%2F1q5j2__98,%2Fg%2F11bzvv1522,%2Fm%2F01qdc_p&hl=en

Look at the time of peak searches. And also note the path of searches on the map...

Map - http://www.nationaleclipse.com

So then I decided to compare with a few top eclipse anthem contenders to see who won the battle. Bonnie blew them all away.

Dark Side of the Moon came in #2 in comparison, followed by #3 Black Hole Sun and #4 Here Comes the Sun. None of them really dominated any city on the map over Bonnie.

Other potential eclipse anthems I checked that rated lower than the Beatles to the 4 listed above: Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, Steal My Sunshine by Len, Total Eclipse by Iron Maiden, Dark of the Sun by Tom Petty, Promises in the Dark by Pat Benetar, Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen, Blinded by the Light cover by Bruce Springsteen (would be #5, this version was also more popular than the Manfred Mann's Earth Band version), Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone by Bill Withers and the individual song Eclipse by Pink Floyd specifically (the album ranked higher). I'm sure I'm missing some but these were at the top of multiple eclipse themed playlists I consulted.

I'm also not sure exactly how many searches this graph corresponds to yet, but I'm sure we'll get recap articles that might have numbers. From a different Google data product, it looks like over 200k searches were done for Total Eclipse of the Heart on Sunday, April 7th alone, the day before (still less than "how to make eclipse glasses" LOL).

Looking forward to Spotify's data. 🌞

Also fun to look at: comparing searches for this song over time with total US eclipses. Possible spikes due to eclipse interest would be 2012 (annular) and 2017 (total) but the 2023 (annular) barely registered. The other spikes may be due to Bonnie performing it on TV (2005) and the TV show Glee covering it (2010).

I'll look at this more later.

But just for fun too, if you've never seen it, check out the Literal lyrics version for the original music video (it was insane, even for the 80's) https://youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk?si=CRXE_Zd86GpZa1yG

To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the horizontal axis and sales on the vertical axis. The ordered pairs of a particular month and the corresponding sales is marked on the grid. For example, mark the point (Jan, 600),(Feb 500),(march,450)......

A line graph is used to show how things change over time using a line on a Cartesian plane. It is also used to show variation of one quantity with respect to another quantity. Example The following shows sales in a certain store for a period of one year in terms of $1000. Task: Draw the line graph to represent this information Solution To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the…

To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the horizontal axis and sales on the vertical axis. The ordered pairs of a particular month and the corresponding sales is marked on the grid. For example, mark the point (Jan, 600),(Feb 500),(march,450)......

A line graph is used to show how things change over time using a line on a Cartesian plane. It is also used to show variation of one quantity with respect to another quantity. Example The following shows sales in a certain store for a period of one year in terms of $1000. Task: Draw the line graph to represent this information Solution To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the…

To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the horizontal axis and sales on the vertical axis. The ordered pairs of a particular month and the corresponding sales is marked on the grid. For example, mark the point (Jan, 600),(Feb 500),(march,450)......

A line graph is used to show how things change over time using a line on a Cartesian plane. It is also used to show variation of one quantity with respect to another quantity. Example The following shows sales in a certain store for a period of one year in terms of $1000. Task: Draw the line graph to represent this information Solution To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the…

To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the horizontal axis and sales on the vertical axis. The ordered pairs of a particular month and the corresponding sales is marked on the grid. For example, mark the point (Jan, 600),(Feb 500),(march,450)......

A line graph is used to show how things change over time using a line on a Cartesian plane. It is also used to show variation of one quantity with respect to another quantity. Example The following shows sales in a certain store for a period of one year in terms of $1000. Task: Draw the line graph to represent this information Solution To draw the line graph, we mark the months on the…

The reason this chart makes it here is due to the atrocious colour scheme, and the way the legend is placed. If you want to know which is the highest weighted stock in the S&P500 at different points in time (which is what colours in the lower line indicate), it’s not going to be easy.

You need to keep looking back and forth between the line and legend, the colour scheme is bad (light colours don’t look good on white background) and the line itself is not bold enough. 

It won’t be easy but I would think of using darker colours, and placing labels right next to the line (rather than in a separate legend). Another way would be to shade different vertical regions in the graph (with rectangles), indicating different  stocks being the highest weighted (again with the title right there rathe than in a separate legend)