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I was enlightened about this decades ago by Edward Tufte [0] - sadly since then I get annoyed by most graphs I see, where they exaggerate the difference in valu
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
I was enlightened about this decades ago by Edward Tufte [0] - sadly since then I get annoyed by most graphs I see, where they exaggerate the difference in values with a non-zero axis.
[0] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
- sokoloff 3y agoI came across this example in the last week and it cracked me up: https://www.boredpanda.com/average-women-height-data-chart-latvian-indian-women/ https://www.boredpanda.com/average-women-height-data-chart-l... (non-zero origin, but the graphics are zero'd to the axis)