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Motivation Get Data Default Plot with Recession Shading Add Chart Titles, Axis Labels, Fancy Legend, Horizontal Line Format X and Y Axis Tick Labels Change Font and Add Data Markers Add Annotations Add Logo/Watermarks

MOTIVATION

Since I started this blog a few years ago, one of my obsessions is creating good looking, informative plots/charts. I've spent an inordinate amount of time learning how to do this and it is still a work in a progress. However all my work is not in vain as several of you readers have commented and messaged me for the code behind some of my time series plots. Beginning with basic time series data, I will show you how I produce these charts.

get data

Import packages