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		bobbylarrybobby on Nov 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Friends don't let friends make bad graphs Easy solution: just plot the delta in °C since some fixed date. (Or for any graph, just subtract y(x_0) from every point. Tada!)

lelanthran on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

To add, that's actually a Bett chart anyway, because you aren't showing the temperature over time, you want to show the change in temperature over time.

Completely different things.

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