• Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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        8 months ago

        It’s common practice to cut the y axis, did you guys not cover that in visualisation?

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      8 months ago

      Could you please clarify why the baseline needs to be at 0? I’m genuinely curious.

      • tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        This graph gives the impression that the total installation number has been multipliés x4 or X5 while it is not the case when looking at the raw numbers.

        Any variation can look impressive if you zoom enough, that’s why you need a baseline at 0. This way you see thé entire scale of the phenomenon

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          8 months ago

          This graph gives the impression that the total installation number has been multipliés x4 or X5

          How so? It goes from ~7 to ~11. That’s not even x2.

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            8 months ago

            It goes from ~7 to ~11. That’s not even x2.

            Yes but the graph goes from 2 rectangles above the bottom line to 8 rectangles above the bottom line in that final surge.
            So visually, it looks like it has quadrupled.

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              8 months ago

              While I agree for the sake of clarity, a bigger problem is that it only goes back less than 2 months. Has the number of installs been steady at 7k for a long time? Or does it fluctuate wildly like this occasionally for reasons totally unrelated to laws?

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                8 months ago

                I was just clarifying the original comment about the baseline not being 0.
                Tbh, I hadn’t even looked at it properly and only noticed now that the timeline isn’t one month per box.

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      8 months ago

      No it doesn’t.

      It’s meant to illustrate a change and it does so perfectly fine. It’s not a scientific paper.

      It’s a 32-34% increase looking at the graph. That’s significant enough to shout about.

      Imagine any change you could make surprising competition by 25% in any market. That’s huge.

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        8 months ago

        It’s meant to illustrate a change and it does so perfectly fine

        Define “perfectly fine”. It is clearly exaggerating the change. At a glance it looks more like a 5 times increase, not a 30% increase.

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        8 months ago

        It’s a 32-34% increase looking at the graph

        But you don’t get that percentage from looking at the graph. You get that from looking at the numbers.
        The graph height increases by 300% in the last 3 months 9 days.

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        8 months ago

        You could say the same about a 0.001 difference if you zoom in on the y-axis. You don’t know what you’re talking about.