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I guess if you are going to violate the chart junk rules, you might as well go all out!
Posted by: David Onder | Oct 12, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Do you think that this is really a design mistake, or a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the data and induce confusion in the reader? If the latter then it does what it sets out to do.
Posted by: Ben | Oct 21, 2011 at 08:40 PM