For example, let’s say that we want to understand how the price of gasoline has changed over time. Figure <a href="data-visualization.html#fig:gasPrices">4.13</a> shows historical gas price data, plotted either with or without adjustment for inflation. Whereas the unadjusted data show a huge increase, the adjusted data show that this is mostly just reflective of inflation. Other examples where one needs to adjust data for other factors include population size and data collected across different seasons.</