Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition

• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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