Graphs that are not drawn to scale mislead the reader. This post shows another example of a graph where the visual representation of the numbers is not proportional to the numbers themselves.

Microsoft's annual internal TechFest research showcase kicks off on March 6. So what better time to check out Trinity, a graph database research project, from Microsoft Research?

Events are rated at seven levels. The scale is logarithmic – that is, the severity of an event is about ten times greater for each increase in level of the scale. Events are considered in terms of: ...

I think they put their finger on the scale by starting the y-axis of the log chart at 0.1, but I don’t suppose many people actually noticed that. In any case, here are the results: ...

For 20 years now, the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) has been used to help authorities worldwide rate nuclear and radiological events and communicate their significance to ...