its-ok-not-to-start-your-y-axis-at-zero/</a>)</p>
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<p>There are certainly cases where using the zero point makes no sense at all. Let’s say that we are interested in plotting body temperature for an individual over time. In Figure <a href="data-visualization.html#fig:bodyTempAxis">4.8</a> we plot the same (simulated) data with or without zero in the Y axis. It should be obvious that by plotting these data with zero in the Y axis (Panel A) we are wasting a lot of space in the figure, given tha