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submitted 1 week ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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.