Dr. Drang☃️ Why a common bit of graphing advice is baloney.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/07/a-good-or-bad-example/
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/07/a-good-or-bad-example/
Moth@drdrang Graphs are tools meant to visualize data. People who are, without nuance, strictly against graphs that don't start at 0, either don't understand what graphs are for or don't understand why certain graphs not starting at 0 is wrong.
David Hodge@MothWaves @drdrang I'd use points, if you don't want the y scale to go to zero
@davidhodge931 @drdrang I think using points because you don't want people to get confused because they didn't read the graph correctly is the best idea. Using graphs dishonestly is absolutely a thing but I don't think the best way to combat that is to design graphs around what you think people will misunderstand it as.