• jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    24 hours ago

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

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