There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases in which one or a few points are much larger than ...

Logarithmic scales can emphasize the rate of change in a way that linear scales do not. Italy seems to be slowing the coronavirus infection rate, while the number of cases in the United States ...

Reference: Holsclaw, T., Sanso, B., Lee, H. K., Heitmann, K., Habib, S., Higdon, D., & Alam, U. (2013). Gaussian process modeling of derivative curves. Technometrics ...

Logarithmic price scales tend to show less severe price increases or decreases than linear price scales. For example, if an asset price has collapsed from $100.00 to $10.00, the distance between ...

However, with a logarithmic map, we can view the universe from a multiplicative factor of “10”. Using a logarithmic scale, the Sun, Mercury, and Mars are all within the same area.

Luc Bauwens, Pierre Giot, The Logarithmic ACD Model: An Application to the Bid-Ask Quote Process of Three NYSE Stocks, Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, No. 60, Microstructure des marchés ...