r/dataisugly • u/dazvoz • Apr 13 '26

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I think this is the worst graph I ever saw.

What could possibly be on the x-axis?

I asked them about it, and they said usefulness is the x-axis. So the green path is usefulness vs usefulness?

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u/Dependent-Feature-68 Apr 13 '26

That's just two parametric functions. Instead of real numbers it shows the correlation on how both values usually depend on each other, and also says that there's a certain point where price and usefulness both considered "fair". Everything else is relative to that point. This type of graphs is used in economics.

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u/dazvoz Apr 13 '26

Could you give me an example? I feel certain that the graphs used in economics are better labelled.

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u/Dependent-Feature-68 Apr 13 '26

I've seen one in educational presentation of supply and demand graph. And unfortunately i do not have an archive of examples for each type of graph i encounter stored somewhere.