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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Even if this was a normal bar chart, the value it represents - the delta without any context - is meaningless

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh my god I just realized that it's showing the change in sales/use. Why on earth would you do that!? What point are they trying to make!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you are working time series the absolute values are not that good for modeling, you want to transform the data into log difference.