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by brnt 1648 days ago
> I am seeing a lot of comments about how the graphs are not anchored at 0.

Personal preference: for large offsets that makes sense. For small ones (~10% of max here) it seems unnecessary, or, to a suspicious mind, meant to hide something ;)

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Yep, I didn't even think about the suspicious angle when I did it. Mostly I was fiddling with how to draw box plots in D3 and that's what came out. Next time I will ensure a 0 axis!
Some of the India offsets are huge.

And the numbers are too small to read, and reading numbers on a graph is mixing System 1 and System 2 thinking, anyway.

I agree that the graphs would be better and still impressive even anchored to 0