Image talk:GBR rail passenegers by year.gif

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Scale

The vertical scale starts at 600, which may deceive inadvertent readers. I believe starting at 0 would be more honest, as it would not suggest traffic dropped to nil in the eighties. 82.171.200.197 (talk) 18:57, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

If the scale started at zero the y-axis would be squished by nearly a factor of two. On the scale that the image is used in articles, that would make it harder to read. I didn't find the axis confusing; it never occurred to me that ridership could have dropped to zero. HLHJ (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fuel Prices

This is an amazing graph. Ridership levels not seen since WWII! Could you make another one that also plots fuel prices? I bet there's a negative correlation. OK, I should do it, in R or Ploticus, since you've provided the raw data. I'll try and get a roundtooit. HLHJ (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)