With election time looming on the never-far-enough-away horizon , Robert Kosara takes a look at the ever-popular “approval rating” graph and presents a great alternative (shown above).
Here is my alternative. It is a stacked area chart that contains the approval at the bottom, the undecided percentage in the middle, and the disapproval on top. The colors were chosen deliberately to be easy to interpret (red is bad, blue is like above and it’s also the color of the Democratic Party), and the undecided layer is actually transparent.
