The art of putting wavy lines across an axis to denote a range skip has atrophied, probably because few charting software packages support it ?

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foxglacier 2 days ago | parent [-]

Broken axes aren't the solution. Starting from 0 is but nobody making graphs seems to understand or, in the case of journalists, they're trying to mislead their readers. I suppose readers enjoy being awed by dramatically changing graphs too.

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		It would also be nice to include a shaded area for the first standard deviation over a relevant period of time to get an idea of how far outside normal it is. In my unhinged pipedreams, we’d have some sort of standard for conveying the data directly so users could use browser settings to decide how to display the data. There like a dozen people in the world that would use it, but they’d really really enjoy it I bet.