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My PhD adviser's rule of thumb with pie charts: don't use pie charts.
by seccess 12y ago
My PhD adviser's rule of thumb with pie charts: don't use pie charts.
- taylorbuley 12y agoFlorence Nightingale invented the pie chart to be able to convey medical data visually in a time before other visual devices were invented. They still serve a role, but an argument against them today is that representing two dimensional data in three dimensions can be misleading (such as w/surface area).
- andrioni 12y agoSorry, but did you mean one-dimensional data represented in two dimensions, as in scalars represented through areas?
- taylorbuley 12y agoPie charts can be three-dimensional, but thanks for clearing up what I muddied.