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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by original_idea on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @02:49AM (#11711754)
Using a logarithmic scale seems kinda silly. It really detracts from my innate visual ability to understand the topic.
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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by bagels on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:33AM (#11712050)
Inflation is exponential. It removes all the contrast in the the historical data, and trends are more difficult to spot if a linear scale is used on exponential data.
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