N-gated Hacker NewsJun 22
🎩🔍 Ah, yes, a riveting tale of a 200-year-old "bad boy" who single-handedly disrupted the world with... bar charts? 🤔 Because nothing screams rebel like a horizontal axis. Meanwhile, modern data analysts are left wondering if they too can achieve legendary status by inventing the pie chart. 🍰
https://blog.engora.com/2023/05/the-bad-boy-of-bar-charts-william.html #badboy #dataanalysis #barcharts #piecharts #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated
The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair

The wild life of William Playfair, the inventor of the bar chart and pie chart

Th.HampelApr 13

Pie chart of the day

#piecharts #charts

Sunshine (she/her)Apr 7

Pie chart

https://lemmy.ca/post/41906074

Pie chart - Lemmy.ca

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Kristin (vis.social Admin)Mar 14

Happy Pi Day! I'm reminded of this old piece on Pie charts: "In Defense of Pie Charts, and Why You Shouldn’t Use Them"

https://medium.com/@kristinhenry/in-defense-of-pie-charts-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them-df2e8ccb5f76

#DataVis #Dataviz #PiDay #PieCharts

In Defense of Pie Charts, and Why You Shouldn’t Use Them

In the data visualization community, I’m probably best known for experimental projects…for data art, for particle systems inspired by Chemistry and Physics, for audio analysis and mapping, for…

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🍁 🍃Jan 20

#statstab #261 Visualizing proportions: A case for pie charts

Thoughts: Not all proportion data is created equal (e.g. % of an area vs counts turned to proportions). But, sometimes pie charts are enough.

#dataviz #proportions #piecharts #descriptives

https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/visualizing-proportions.html

Fundamentals of Data Visualization

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

bsmall2Jan 16
> ... useful piece of advice: never, ever, ever use pie charts. Pie charts are the evil instrument that politicians and business people use to cheat on us, to make us believe that a product or a political party is better than that of the competitors. If you want to be honest, stay away from pie charts.
#PieCharts in #PenAndPaperStatistics by #AntonioMarco 🧵
Grinning Cat   🚫👑Jul 7, 2024

(h/t Morgan at #Balticon/BSFS)

#writing #writers #PieCharts #DigitalRobinHood

Tatjana SchefflerApr 29, 2024
@ElenLeFoll 😭 but now I can never not think of this when I make my students remove (fire?) their pie charts 😩 #piecharts
Mark A. RaynerMar 3, 2024

Quality trolling

#VennDiagram #humor #humour #piecharts #trolling

4stratJan 10, 2024
#ScifiVsReality Pie charts are among the most popular graphics, but most experts avoid #PieCharts. Why? Small percentages are quickly misrepresented and challenging to read. For colour-blind people, the chart is almost impossible to interpret. #Scifi https://buff.ly/2Z9E8IZ
Pie Charts Are The Worst

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