I understand that but when I see a graph that does not start at zero I can take it into account. I get you though about best practice. Usually this type of thing I think is from software defaulting to it to avoid white space. At the extreme if you have something that is at a million and goes up to 1.1 million that can be a huge jump for a particular time span but if you started at zero it would just look like a straight line.
This is the same data, but the graph that doesn’t start at zero is misleading.
The one bar looks twice as big, when it definitely isn’t.
Graphs that don’t start at zero can be useful, but it’s nice to have the option to choose.
I understand that but when I see a graph that does not start at zero I can take it into account. I get you though about best practice. Usually this type of thing I think is from software defaulting to it to avoid white space. At the extreme if you have something that is at a million and goes up to 1.1 million that can be a huge jump for a particular time span but if you started at zero it would just look like a straight line.
Yea I totally get why both exist. Over long timespans starting at zero will just give you a lot of whitespace