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And that graph they show has an offset y axis (hides the scale from 0 to exaggerate the "downward trend") _and_ has a non-uniform x axis. Each tick mark represents a different scale of time (1yr, 3 mos, 1 mo)

Wtf

Oh wow did not catch that!

Looks like the edited the graph in the article to correct this.

Still skeptical about the data source. Analytics datasets always seem to undercount the most recent few data points.

At the time when job openings are declining across the board, it's easy to lie with statistics.

It's like publications saying "research discipline X is gaining traction in recent years" based on search matches in PubMed, but not normalizing for the total number of articles submitted increasing.

Using baloney statistics to sell a product to data scientists is a bit like presenting a flat earth paper at an astronomy conference. Bold move.