2 ms·

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

• joezydeco 14y ago
  Totally serious. I changed the graph to "relative" to show growth of the term over the period.
  • crntaylor 14y ago
    http://xkcd.com/1102/ http://xkcd.com/1102/
  • thaumaturgy 14y ago
    Just in case the xkcd that crntaylor posted doesn't explain the situation well enough: Let's assume that there's 10,000 total job postings in your graph. If the "rock star" trend grew from just 1 posting to just 70 postings, that would represent a 7000% growth over the period, even though "rock star" would still represent just .007 of the total market. Growth graphs answer a very specific kind of question, and it's rarely the question that people mean to ask. Or, put another way: click the "Absolute" link next to "Scale", under "engineer, programming, engineering, rock star Job Trends".