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U3.02

Broken axes and their misuse

Cards in this group · 5

  1. U3.02.1A broken axis removes a value interval from the middle of the scale
  2. U3.02.2Across the break, equal distances no longer mean equal values
  3. U3.02.3Break markers are often too small to notice, equal to unmarked
  4. U3.02.4Length encodings crossing the break lose all comparability
  5. U3.02.5Facets or log scales usually replace the broken axis