The Year of the Time Series Graph

A year in curves and graphed projections

I have a friend who has a deep grudge against time series graphs. He cannot stand them; if you earnestly invoke one in an argument you have doomed your reputation with him. He has a poet’s heart—he was seduced into his current vocation, his life’s calling, which has caused him no shortage of pain and misery, because of his love of ancient poetry in dead…