Anthropic revenue chart lands in Museum of Chart Crimes for distorted time axis
infoxiao · x · 2026-09-29
A TickerTrends chart of Anthropic's annualized revenue run-rate, flagged by Peter Walker, has been curated into the open-source Museum of Chart Crimes (MoCC).
The flaw: January 2024–December 2025 occupies roughly the same horizontal space as later spans of just a few months. The bars are equally spaced despite unequal time intervals, compressing early history and stretching recent observations — inviting readers to misread growth speed and plateau duration from distance alone.
MoCC notes the recent plateau could still be real; the issue is purely the time axis. A line chart with dots at actual observation dates would represent the trend fairly.
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