1) You're trying to deceive your audience. It's one of the many ways covered in the classic, "How to lie with statistics"
2) You're presenting secret data. You're allowed to show the trends, but not any of the actual units.
Also, I thought the title on this graph was misleading. it said "Rapid Growth", and certainly, it was going up, but rapid compared to what? You always want to be asking yourself, "compared to what?" when you're looking at visualizations.
1) You're trying to deceive your audience. It's one of the many ways covered in the classic, "How to lie with statistics"
2) You're presenting secret data. You're allowed to show the trends, but not any of the actual units.
Also, I thought the title on this graph was misleading. it said "Rapid Growth", and certainly, it was going up, but rapid compared to what? You always want to be asking yourself, "compared to what?" when you're looking at visualizations.