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[-] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even if this was a normal bar chart, the value it represents - the delta without any context - is meaningless

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Oh my god I just realized that it's showing the change in sales/use. Why on earth would you do that!? What point are they trying to make!?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago

If you are working time series the absolute values are not that good for modeling, you want to transform the data into log difference.

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