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[โ€“] renzev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh my god I just realized that it's showing the change in sales/use. Why on earth would you do that!? What point are they trying to make!?

If you are working time series the absolute values are not that good for modeling, you want to transform the data into log difference.