Blaze@reddthat.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoNumber of monthly active Lemmy users rising againmessage-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareNumber of monthly active Lemmy users rising againBlaze@reddthat.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareaasatru@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoWell, it does make sense, doesn’t it? What we’re interested in is not the number of users, but the trends: whether the number is increasing or decreasing over time. Starting the axis at 0 would not be useful in this regard, as the trend would be almost completely obscured.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoFor something like that, you need a special graph, and I forget the name because no one uses it. Y axis is “percent growth” and the X axis isn’t at the bottom, it’s in the middle. Like, the only way I can describe it is a line graph because it technically is, but there’s some name done it. Capitalism doesn’t like it tho, because there’s “red numbers” and red numbers scare investors
Well, it does make sense, doesn’t it?
What we’re interested in is not the number of users, but the trends: whether the number is increasing or decreasing over time. Starting the axis at 0 would not be useful in this regard, as the trend would be almost completely obscured.
For something like that, you need a special graph, and I forget the name because no one uses it.
Y axis is “percent growth” and the X axis isn’t at the bottom, it’s in the middle.
Like, the only way I can describe it is a line graph because it technically is, but there’s some name done it.
Capitalism doesn’t like it tho, because there’s “red numbers” and red numbers scare investors