Slope in Percent and Trend Offset

Two ways to make the label mean something — and to leave data out of the fit

Slope as a percentage

percentage: true

percentage prints the slope × 100. That is only a meaningful percentage when the y values are fractions of a whole and x is a real unit: here the share of households adopting a service goes from 5 % to 13 % over eight years, and the label reads 1.15 % per year.

Leaving data out of the fit

trendoffset: -2

The last two quarters jump away from the series. trendoffset: -2 excludes them from the fit — and, because the line runs from the first to the last included point, it visibly stops before them.