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Would Tufte approve of mixing units on a graph?

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I’ve created a set of Cacti templates for graphing stats about MySQL. While these were based on several other people’s work, there are many improvements. One of them in particular I want to bring up, and I’ll go so far as to say it ought to be a “best practice” for graphing. That is, don’t mix units on a graph.

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October 9th, 2008 at 9:58 pm