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I'm also color deficient, but disagree.

Usually, I'm looking for rate of change of one item at a time, not all of them at the same time. After that, I'll compare them.

Stacked bar charts, IMO, seem skewed in who gained the most over a period, but not the individual gains. I have no idea what green really ended up with by the end of it because it just kept getting pushed towards the top. I have to constantly go to the left and compare ranges with the previous stack.

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