Breaking every limb is very painful

Junk Charts 2013-03-15

Summary:

This Financial Times chart is a big failure: Look at the axis. Usually a break in the axis is reserved for outliers. If there is one bar in a bar chart that extends way beyond the rest of the data,...

Link:

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2013/02/breaking-every-limb-is-very-painful.html

Updated:

03/07/2013, 00:30

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Tags:

business economics current affairs scale axis bar chart comparability outlier selection trifecta checkup

Authors:

junkcharts

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 12:56

Date published:

02/20/2013, 08:35