It’s true. Sometimes it’s okay for the y-axis to start at a non-zero…
baseline
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Sometimes the y-axis doesn’t start at zero, and it’s fine
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Bar Chart Baselines Start at Zero
There are visualization rules and there are visualization suggestions. Most are suggestions. The ones that are rules exist because of how our brains process visual information. There’s just no getting around it.
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Serial views
Like many, I’ve been listening to Serial every week, but I always just…



Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
