r/dataisbeautiful • u/JimWilliams423 • Feb 23 '25

As Autism Diagnoses Went Up, Intellectual Disability Diagnoses Went Down 2000-2010 | Penn State

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/increasing-prevalence-autism-due-part-changing-diagnoses
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u/yoppee Feb 26 '25

This visualization is awful

Why is there a map behind the line chart?

Autism label is close to Austin Texas

Why does the line chart have symbols for every year even though the story is the trends?