• aasatru@kbin.earth
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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