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euroderftoday at 7:01 AM1 replyview on HN

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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foxglaciertoday at 9:01 AM

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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