• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    It’s great when organizing something in a database. You can just do A to Z ordering and it works just fine.

    However visually it’s not very good because it puts the least important piece of information first and the most important piece of information last. I probably know the current year so it doesn’t need to be that prominent, and I’m fairly certain that it’s going to be sometime this millennium, so I don’t need the date to four digits.

    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s entirely depend on the time frame range of your data. If it’s wide it rapidly becomes useful to see the year first. In general I like to put ‘larger’ group variables in tables from left to right, helps in a similar way.