Ridership Growth on a Log Scale

From the DC DDOT bicycle count and inspired by this examiner article - if we're expecting year-over-year percentage growth to stay constant, the log scale is a proper choice.

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Modified http://d3js.org/d3.v3.js to a secure url

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