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by mjs7231 3625 days ago
If you look at the colors, it seems gun violence is much worse in later years. However, if you look at the scale it tells the opposite story; gun violence was far greater in 2013. Also, 2016 isn't over yet, it should be scaled appropriately (which we can only assume is not). This chart is useless as it is.
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Yeah that is pretty ridiculous, it is non-obvious that the scale changed.
Makes me wonder if it is purposely misleading.
I've updated the visualization to correct this