Poll: Which figure is better? The bars or the points

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I have two figures that show the same information: means of density by region across three time periods.
Figure 1 group by region, use a bar chart. Figure 2 group by year, use scatterplot.

Poll: Which Figure is better?




Figure 1. 


Figure 2. 

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Yang Liu said…
Why there is no one vote.... =.=
March 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM
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