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A comment on A-Rod's 600th HR Landing Spot Projection at Tropicana Field.

Re:A-Rod's 600th HR Landing Spot Projection at Tropicana Field by photon_off on Saturday July 31, 2010 @08:02PM (#1564466)
Very interesting article, except for the ticket price graph, whose lower limit is $40. Why show a bar graph that doesn't start at 0? It eliminates the purpose of bar graphs - to visually compare the magnitude of values.
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Re:A-Rod's 600th HR Landing Spot Projection at Tropicana Field by chadburgess on Saturday July 31, 2010 @08:13PM (#1564477)
Fair point, not sure that in this case it eliminates the ability to compare because the actually raw $ numbers aren't that important, it is more about the % changes.

With that said, when not starting from 0 a "squiggly" line should be used to make note.

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Re:A-Rod's 600th HR Landing Spot Projection at Tropicana Field by Zev on Saturday July 31, 2010 @08:09PM (#1564471)
Tickets don't start at $0, and the average will never be $0.
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