I help people communicate data clearly with graphs ... with logarithmic scales. That is a second reason that I prefer dot plots over bar charts for these data. The previous example showed both ...

The log scale has clear advantages for these data, but on the down side, interpreting data values in a graph with a log scale is not as intuitive as one with a linear scale. How the scales are ...

The data look very different when plotted on what is called a logarithmic scale. In a typical graph, values on the ... the rate of change in a way that linear scales do not.

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These charts differ from those using linear price scales, which look ... Logarithmic price scales tend to show less severe price increases or decreases than linear price scales. For example ...