It happened again, this time from NBC: they say something is “off the charts” and then literally show a chart with a line on it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/worlds-oceans-are-charts-warm-worst-yet-come-rcna96665
@litherum The nerd-pedant's version would be "{thing} is stretching the Y-axis," I guess.
Although @zachleat did have a blog post where he just let the SVG line from an outlier spill off the chart area defined by the rest of the data.
@AmeliaBR @litherum I did but it did not make me any friends https://www.zachleat.com/web/build-benchmark/
@zachleat @AmeliaBR That is a justified use of the phrase "off the charts."
@zachleat @AmeliaBR https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/111438227554878239
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