When to use the start-at-zero rule

Junk Charts 2014-04-24

Summary:

A response to a tweet forwarded to me. The person tweeting complained that FiveThirtyEight uses charts that don’t start the vertical axis at zero. The example given was this: In this post, I want to clear some confusion around the...

Link:

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2014/04/when-to-use-the-start-at-zero-rule-.html

Updated:

04/23/2014, 23:40

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Authors:

junkcharts

Date tagged:

04/24/2014, 14:30

Date published:

04/24/2014, 08:01