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You seem to have understood close to the opposite of the author's intent: "In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point.
by learnstats2 9y ago
You seem to have understood close to the opposite of the author's intent:
"In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point." - Edward Tufte.
- qubex 9y agoI'm delighted to see you're well-acquainted with the source. I'm absolutely certain he advocates having some kind of evident glyph in the Y axis to indicate discontinuity and the nonzero baseline, I think it was the classic // mark or something akin to it. Am I wrong? That's what I meant by abusing its dicta to make dramatic graphs.