I mean I think they are more interested in the relative change. Some words are much rarer by nature (i.e. "the" compared to "delve") so you actually would not want to have identical y axes for visualization purposes. They could have used "percent change" as the y axis with very similar results
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Sam Degregori
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Postdoc at the Knight Lab, UCSD. Interested in large-scale microbiome analyses at global scales.Founder of the Gut Microbiome Tree of Life Project - poopomics.com
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