Chaotic Memes

Behold, the chaotic evil of data visualization. What you're witnessing is the mathematical equivalent of putting pineapple on pizza—technically permissible but morally questionable. Misaligned log scales are the kind of thing that would make your statistics professor develop a twitch. Sure, there's no explicit rule against it, just like there's no explicit rule against using Comic Sans in your dissertation... but some crimes against humanity don't need to be codified to be wrong.