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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week 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!?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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