Unemployment Panel Chart

Today we discuss yet another chart mentioned in Paresh's blog. In his post last Sunday, Nov 13, Paresh talks at length about small multiples, Otherwise known as Trellis Chart, Lattice chart, Grid Chart, or Panel Charts as a powerful tool of visualization, and asks us ways on how to replicate the chart published in NYT.

Soon thereafter, I see Chandoo post a tutorial on how to create such charts. But, he uses 3 separate ones to achieve the "Panel" effect.

Here is my response to the question. Since I couldn't locate the data for the charts, I've used approximate values.

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