Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. This is issue #255. I’m Nathan Yau. When your dataset has a few values that are a lot bigger than the rest, the scale can get squished. You see the big values, but all the small values are barely visible even if they show a useful pattern when you zoom in. Here are chart options to show the full dataset so that you can see the small values and the large ones.
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