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One register, forty-three years deep
Monthly counts from the Paris register of 1812 to 1854, folded onto a single year. A two-stop colour ramp is what pulls the decades back apart.

Source
Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import {
GeomPoint,
GGPlot,
Labs,
ScaleColorGradient,
ScaleXContinuous,
ThemeMinimal,
} from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { parisRegister } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot
data={parisRegister}
aes={{ x: "month", y: "registered", color: "year" }}
width={640}
height={400}
>
<ThemeMinimal />
<ScaleColorGradient low="#132B43" high="#56B1F7" />
<ScaleXContinuous breaks={[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]} />
<Labs
title="Forty-three years of one register, stacked by month"
subtitle="Paris, 1812 to 1854; the ramp is the only thing separating the years"
x="Month"
y="Women on the register"
color="Year"
/>
<GeomPoint size={2.6} alpha={0.85} />
</GGPlot>
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