Do Some Lines

 | Sep 07, 2021 12:41AM ET

I am pleased to announce a subtle but very important improvement in SlopeCharts: you can now view line charts on a log scale, instead of being forced to use an arithmetic scale. We had forced this issue earlier, because in instances where values can be negative, we change the graph to a line chart and use the arithmetic scale. Now, SlopeCharts is smarter about it. To illustrate this, below are some Wilshire equity charts, which aren’t quite as jaw-dropping as before, because now the representation is a lot more honest: