Wait, you guys don’t always start your x-axis at 60? So much cleaner that way. Who wants to see a bunch of extra horizontal line anyway? Get to the good stuff at the end!
It’s like starting the floor count on the ground floor of a building at 1. 
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Ugh, so we once rented a flat in Barcelona, it was listed as being on the third floor. Except yeah, the ground floor was zero, hadn’t encountered that before. Oh, and the entrance was in the basement, so we started at floor -1. Kind of annoying when you have luggage.
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Is there no floor on the ground to be counted!?
7th grade Spanish covered la planta baja, but the entrance being in el sotano, not so much.
On a somewhat related note, starting the 5 star system at 1 star is often confusing. Coming from a background where the option of 0 stars was available and it wasn’t a skewed distribution, 2.5 stars represented the median. Here, the median would be 3 stars when it’s not skewed. Often it is skewed so that the median might be 3.5 or even 4 stars.
I thought that in this day and age of rating the results of gig workers, the median was 5 stars.
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I mean, there was good info, but bad presentation
from r/dataisugly
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly/comments/1goij9y/cbo_chart_on_the_federal_budget/#lightbox
as a commenter put it, it should have been a stacked column graph:
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I don’t understand why they forced the white space in the chart. It still would have been the wrong chart to use, but it seems like they would have been more actively involved in that bad decision rather than just pick a random chart and think “that looks nice”
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yeah, I’m getting a headache from looking at that
I like that the population surges from 148,004 in 2022 to 147,748,000 in 2023 according to the labels, but the bar graph doesn’t seem to reflect that…
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Sadly, that part is wrong too as the chart is not in thousands despite the label.
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maybe they switched to being European
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I find it kinda fascinating.
They look a bit like severed chimpanzee fingers