• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’ll never stop complaining about Y axis that don’t start at zero.

    If that means the change isn’t noticable, then the change isn’t noticable.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah when I showed the cop the graph of my speed before getting in my car to be 67000mph (speed of the earth around the sun) to 67080mphwhen I was driving it he couldn’t see the difference so I didn’t get the ticket.

      Or sometimes choosing a common-sense reference makes sense.

      Which isn’t to say THIS one does, it doesn’t, but the absolutism of “it’s nerf or nothing” is a tad extreme.

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        5 months ago

        Well, it does make sense, doesn’t it?

        What we’re interested in is not the number of users, but the trends: whether the number is increasing or decreasing over time. Starting the axis at 0 would not be useful in this regard, as the trend would be almost completely obscured.

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          5 months ago

          For something like that, you need a special graph, and I forget the name because no one uses it.

          Y axis is “percent growth” and the X axis isn’t at the bottom, it’s in the middle.

          Like, the only way I can describe it is a line graph because it technically is, but there’s some name done it.

          Capitalism doesn’t like it tho, because there’s “red numbers” and red numbers scare investors