Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling

Re:Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data ... by Strilanc on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:16AM (#7737716)

Also, on top of being cumulative and using different periods, the chart just directly visually lies.

The pixel height difference between the 78.2 and 148.8 bars is ~110px for 70.6B$. But between 148.8 and 210 it's 198px for 61.2B.

So the pixel difference increases despite the money difference decreasing. I have no idea how this can be justified. It makes the right side of the chart look more steep than the rest instead of less (except the left-most part).

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Re:Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data ... by Strilanc on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:35AM (#7737787)

They dabble in scaling 2-dimensional objects by radius instead of the area, but not quite by radius. A ~40% (cumulative) increase in dollars is shown as a ~70% increase in pixel area (which is a ~30% increase in radius, not ~40%).

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