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by amanaplanacanal 15 days ago
Data visualization is hard, but what do you think is wrong with the graph?
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Graphs tell stories and the only story this one actually tells is "29-year high".

It doesn't do a good job of establishing trends and its sample size is too low to discern how significant of an outlier this is.

Actually there is a similar outlier on the bottom of the graph, which suggests the current outlier might not actually be that significant. And that's definitely not the story intended by the author.