&gt;<i>It is depressing due to the Y-axis not starting on zero</i><p>It depends on what the focus of the data is.  In this case the emphasis is on the difference between the series&#x27;, not their relative distance from zero. So there&#x27;s nothing wrong with truncating the axis, particularly on a line chart; why have a bunch of white-space at the bottom?<p>Context is everything.