Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nothing to make a point like snipping off the y-axis scaling.
I hate Microslop like any person with > 2 brain cells, but that graph is useless - all visible y-entries end in a 0 - might as well be 99.990, 99.980, 99.970, …
Jordan117@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s just Xitter’s image viewer cropping it automatically; the original upload has it.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 week ago
It is still bad practice to select a narrow window from a axis like this and show the difference that seems massive relative to what is shown but isn’t that significant when we can see the relation to the whole.
Graph 101
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This is a commonly known issue with graphs and one that gets repeated without a lot of consideration for context. While it’s generally a good basic rule to have graphs show the full vertical axis, it’s not like it’s a hard rule that needs to be followed 100% of the time. In this case for example, moving from 99.999% (five nines) to 99% (two nines) is a significant effect, it has importance. Displaying the full axis would make that difference unnoticeable and render the graph useless.