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>Indeed for her kind of data the rainbow palette works okay. But if you have to visualize more complex / denser data, beware of the pitfalls of the rainbow color palette. It is not always the best choice.

There is already a trap in this palette, the first color looks awfully like the last. It's fine if you just want a palette for a bunch of lines but using it for heatmap could be a bit misleading in edge cases



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