Automating my graphics advice

After seeing this graph:

dist_over_top_by_sex_small.png

I have the following message for Sharad:

Rotate the graph 90 degrees so you can see the words. Also you can ditch the lines. Then what you have is a dotplot, following the principles of Cleveland (1985). You can lay out a few on one page to see some interactions with demographics.

The real challenge here . . .

. . . is to automate this sort of advice. Or maybe we just need a really nice dotplot() function and enough examples, and people will start doing it?

P.S.

Often a lineplot is better. See here for a discussion of another Sharad example.

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