Chart Experiment - Retirement-Age Workers by U.S. State

I was pretty sure that I did this before, but looking back in my Google Drive, I don't see it. I thought that over the summer I had seen an article about states and their corresponding party affiliations and from that I made a chart. 

But I can't find it.

So, I grabbed data from 270towin for the political parties. 

Then I put it all into a Sheet and tried a few charts. I ended up deciding the bar chart showed it the best, although the radar chart was the most artistic.




So, then here's what 










This was still hard to gain evidence from, so I though maybe getting the sum would show me something. To me it looked like the blue states had a higher percentage. So, here are the SUM values.

Red 440.4
Purple 318.8
Blue 412.7

The count of each party are as follows:
D16
P14
R20


The bar-thinckness couldn't be changed, and while I was trying different chart types, I tried the stacked bar chart. For some reason that made the bars wider.



Still, I am not thrilled with the lack of options for this type of data in Google Sheets.

The important things to remember with different series is how to structure the data. Each series needs to be in a different column.




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