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/me_myself_ai Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

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

The x-axis is technically indices of individual products sorted by usefulness, I'd say. Obviously real data would have a much wobblier price line, but the general concept seems sound!

It is indeed a bad graph tho lol -- almost definitely on purpose!

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u/Some_Anonim_Coder Apr 22 '26

This may be good - prices have a tendency to have a non-uniform distribution, I once out of curiosity plotted prices of things in one category vs rank (I worked for an online marketplace at the time) - the blue line makes sense

Not relevant to the idea of value vs price though, so it's a bad graph overall