Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.

entering data is beautiful mode …

It’s not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.

It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that’d probably work too, but it wouldn’t be as aesthetically pleasing.