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by floatingatoll 2327 days ago
Newest-left graphs would make sense in analysis domains that consider “the most recent time interval” exponentially more important than “the least recent time interval”, and would display the most valuable data (most recent) correctly on mobile screens of any width leaving truncation to cut off ancient histories.
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They're also used to make age the X axis without requiring the time period to be specified somewhere else.