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I think they put their finger on the scale by starting the y-axis of the log chart at 0.1, but I don’t suppose many people actually noticed that. In any case, here are the results: ...

On a logarithmic chart, a price change from 2 to 4, from 20 to 40, or from 200 to 400, all have the same "size" on the vertical axis: ...

In log scale, however, each point on the vertical axis is a multiple of the previous point, i.e. 1, 10, 100, ... If the curve in the log graph is shown in regular linear scale, it looks like this: ...

But for something that’s growing exponentially, a logarithmic scale would be a better choice – certainly for scientists. Harp collected data from the CDC on new virus cases in the U.S. up through ...

If an Excel chart’s vertical axis is incremented by 20,000, and most of its data points are between 70,000 and 550,000, the chart will look somewhat crowded at the top if the horizontal axis ...