Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is no more contentious area of chart design than the choice of scale — the mechanism by which numbers of ...

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The scale property effectively performs a zoom on the graph. It is the same as actionMode=Zoom or the action performed when you select Zoom from the build-mode popup menu. A value of 1 scales to ...