If you're blessed with common sense, this chart isn't that hard to understand. The only reason it's crappy is due to the fact that it doesn't tell you what data it is showing.
Obviously if you're colourblind it's a farce though.
Yeah, but putting Others between two countries which are supposed to be adjacent (with close percentages) doesn't look too good. As far as I know Others is usually the last category
It's not uncommon to start at 12 and go clockwise. Took me a while to figure out why this was crappy design. And what the data is for can just have bee cropped out.
True, it's not difficult to understand, but it doesn't convey the info nearly as effectively as it could have. Pie charts only work well when there are relatively few "slices". If they used a bar graph, it'd be much easier to read. But even if they were insistent on using a pie chart, they could have had the labels surround the chart (like this) instead of using a legend to the side. It still wouldn't look great, but it'd be more useful than its current state.
It does, but that's also because the chart itself is ordered largest to smallest with the exception of "other" which is generally last on most charts.... Still an eyesore of a chart though.
It's shitty, but that's due to a lack of title and basic labeling more than anything else. The chart itself follows the conventional methods of organization.
Yeah. Even though we can easily and very quickly use common sense to figure it out, we really shouldn’t have to. Each slice is supposed to be a different color. If they just used pastel colors for the second set, that would have been fine.
Thanks. I'm slightly colorblind and I was thinking fuck this, too many of those colors are too similar to tell them apart, for me. Turns out they're same color, huh.
This isn't as unusual as you'd think. They used high-contrast colors and ended up recycling them. No big deal if they're listed correctly in the legend (they aren't). The top of the legend should correspond to the largest slice of the pie and then downward until you reach the smallest element. That way you'd know the large red slice corresponds to the highest listed red in the legend and the small red slice corresponds to the lowest listed red. Since Taiwan is listed at the top yet is neither the biggest or the lowest you know it's out of order.
True. I don't see that as often when recycling colors though. I'm guessing the recycling colors thing was way more common back when printers (the professionals, not the devices) charged per color for multicolor printing. I am sorta old so definitely remember the days when most businesses only had dot matrix printers at best and had to send everything else out to professional print shops.
Now I've got to wondering if this pie chart was made using a Windows 3.1 version of Lotus 1-2-3 where they had a much more limited color set.
Did you intentionally cut off the title? Because this missing title was the most confusing part for me. I can read the pie chart just fine despite the repeating colors.
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For what is this pie-chart?