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You have a point, but then what value do they add?
by benohear 15y ago
You have a point, but then what value do they add?
- ChrisNorstrom 15y agoLooks. That's all. Pie Charts are terrible for comparing anything because of the way the brain understands and interprets shapes, length, and size as a quantity. Someone came up with pie-charts a while back, others thought it looked cool, and it unfortunately stuck around. http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/ http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-c...
- DanBC 15y agoThe original example - Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagram - is an excellent example of presenting information. Unfortunately, pie charts stuck around and they're usually lousy. (http://www.economist.com/node/10278643?story_id=10278643 http://www.economist.com/node/10278643?story_id=10278643) EDIT: And this article explains the problems: (http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/2008/01/nightingales-rose/ http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/2008/01/nightingales-rose/)