It is still bad practice to select a narrow window from a axis like this and show the difference that seems massive relative to what is shown but isn’t that significant when we can see the relation to the whole.
This is a commonly known issue with graphs and one that gets repeated without a lot of consideration for context. While it’s generally a good basic rule to have graphs show the full vertical axis, it’s not like it’s a hard rule that needs to be followed 100% of the time. In this case for example, moving from 99.999% (five nines) to 99% (two nines) is a significant effect, it has importance. Displaying the full axis would make that difference unnoticeable and render the graph useless.
Yes I absolutely agree but it has to be transparent and for me it is intentionally misleading to show it like this. Yes, it’s still significant and still shows lack of care from microslop but context matters to me. Maybe more than to others :)) I acknowledge that I am special that way and this is fine for others
It’s just Xitter’s image viewer cropping it automatically; the original upload has it.
It is still bad practice to select a narrow window from a axis like this and show the difference that seems massive relative to what is shown but isn’t that significant when we can see the relation to the whole.
Graph 101
This is a commonly known issue with graphs and one that gets repeated without a lot of consideration for context. While it’s generally a good basic rule to have graphs show the full vertical axis, it’s not like it’s a hard rule that needs to be followed 100% of the time. In this case for example, moving from 99.999% (five nines) to 99% (two nines) is a significant effect, it has importance. Displaying the full axis would make that difference unnoticeable and render the graph useless.
Yes I absolutely agree but it has to be transparent and for me it is intentionally misleading to show it like this. Yes, it’s still significant and still shows lack of care from microslop but context matters to me. Maybe more than to others :)) I acknowledge that I am special that way and this is fine for others