Edward Tufte himself says to use a non-zero axis for time series. If the extent of your analysis is "10k is a lot, 8% isn't" then I'm not really concerned how

Edward Tufte himself says to use a non-zero axis for time series. If the extent of your analysis is "10k is a lot, 8% isn't" then I'm not really concerned how you interpret my chart. I have no comment on the quality of the article.