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I have fond memories of going to scout camp in Drumbo. Don't trash Drumbo!

All examples in 1, 2 or 3 can be used when appropriate. A good example is sometimes 150k vs 155k is a massive difference and matters a lot. Sometimes it doesnt. It all comes down to what you are trying to present and if it is helping to inform or misinform.

Just make sure axis are clearly labeled with values and units. Use your best judgement on how to present data. As a viewer just make sure you observe the axis and the details. Dont just glance at a chart, glancing is useless and you will get bamboozled sooner or later . . . Almost certainly sooner.

Did you have to say that in such a dumb way?

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>1 is perfectly OK for when you need to zoom in to see the difference.

Agreed. There are lots of examples where you really shouldn't start the Y axis at zero, e.g. if zero is not a reasonable value of whatever measure you're displaying. If I want to display the past few years' average temperatures in Miami, I should not start either the X-axis (year) or the Y-axis (temperature) at zero.

It was a DPO

> Starting Y-axis near the lowest value can make insignificant differences look massive

It’s worse than that: if you’re just comparing two values, the resultant graph will look exactly the same regardless of what the input values are. The graph is conveying no information whatsoever.

Number 2 is not necessarily misleading. It depends on the comparison

That's not really true anymore in corporate America though is it? Shares with 10x voting rights, share with no voting rights etc...

The second image in #2 has different values so I’d keep them the same to show that the data can mislead based on the display not the image. And #3 I would have 2015-2019 descending to better prove the point.

1 is perfectly OK for when you need to zoom in to see the difference. Perhaps it can be better notified that the axis doesn't start at zero

2 is perfectly OK when you want to show correlation between to series that don't necessarily have the same unit or magnitude.

3 is the most questionable one because three years is a very short time frame (for some things). You can address that by adding a previous trend line.
I don't know if it qualifies as cherry picking though, or at least it's not what people mean when they use that term.

All in all these are not deceptive if you know how to look at a chart and if there's a modicum of context to the chart.

I appreciate the effort but not necessarily the execution.

And my comment was pointing out that it's actually an easy chart to understand.

map of noisy less populated counties, great

3 has this actually- no axis at all is a red flag I often call out to my less data-minded friends! I love this graphic!

I'm confused about that. Looking at yahoo finance the difference between their IPO and current price is only ~1.59% as of writing. Google Finance says it's actually down ~6%. What should I be looking at?

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Wrongly scaled Y axis are the thing I see most often.

If they were milking themselves I believe it would be more expensive than using a cow

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Drumbo: go for the gas station, stay because locals have jumped you and roughed you up for the crime of being an American and asking to use the gas station’s public bathroom.

36 Women only costs less than 1k each? (Assuming that you're buying to own all of these)

LOL I hadn’t noticed! Well, it was much needed either way.

Alibaba sells garbage products for cheap prices and uses every last bit of information about you to spam your phone and email. I’m still getting spam calls in Chinese 5 years after trying out their service. Never bought a thing from them.

Well now I absolutely have to check out Drumbo lol