Hey Adam

What you are suggesting is interesting but might cause a lot of confusion,
for example:
- the values -10 and 1/10 will be positioned in the same height
- the value 0.5 will be positioned lower than -0.5
In general, the positioning function you are suggesting is not monotone nor
is it continuous.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale seems to only
describe logarithmic scale of positive values
Do you have any reference to literature or an example of a well known
charting tool that behaves that way?

  Badtnik

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Adam <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why does the logScale configuration option of the Column and Bar
> Charts require all values to be positive? (according the the
> documentation)
>
> There is no reason for negative values not to have a log scale. The
> scale should be calculated according to the absolute values of the
> data. So the negative log scale would be something similar to -1, -10,
> -100, ...
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