Thursday, January 21, 2010

Read that Graph CAREFULLY

Everyone here knows that I find it difficult to respect a man who feels able to spend $1,600,000,000 on his own job interview expenses but even Obama needs some protection from the badly drawn graphs and charts. Even the Financial Times can get it wrong!

Here is a graph cut and pasted from yesterday's Financial Times:

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How about the corrected version where the vertical axis is NOT chopped off just below the half way point ... no such a drastic change over the year is it?

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This post was also uploaded to Duncan's Diurnal Diatribe

DW

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