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June 17, 2010
Something's missing
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I like the message in this graph, but the chart itself is missing something very fundamental...the scale. How can we possibly compare values without the scale? The scale could be 0-1, it could be 0-1,000,000,000 or it could be 500-1,500. Who knows?
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