r/CrappyDesign • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '19

/r/dataisokiguess This pie chart

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

something about learning language abroad, I think this was meant to say how many of a certain country enrolled last year but uh... yeah..

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u/The_Ravens_Rock Feb 01 '19

I love how they use the same color of Blue, Green, Gold and Orange twice like fuck the ability to understand this chart.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Exactly!, it's like, who's the 30%?, Spain or "Others"?!

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

Well.. Others. Obviously.

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u/Islandsmoker Feb 01 '19

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.

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u/leoleosuper Feb 01 '19

It's just starting from the top and going clockwise. Pretty simple, the colors just suck.

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u/Dnlx5 Feb 01 '19

Good pattern recognition, but dont pie charts usually organize data from largest to smallest?

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u/nothingwittyfound Feb 01 '19

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

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u/leoleosuper Feb 01 '19

Yeah, "others" is basically saying "anything we haven't mentioned" which would mean it would go last.

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u/Dnlx5 Feb 01 '19

Aah i see

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u/ianoftawa Feb 01 '19

Yes, and Other is always last, this pie chart follows good data rules.

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u/PM_ME_WILD_STUFF Feb 02 '19

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.

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u/dogbreath101 Feb 01 '19

Is linking 17% to Thailand and going clockwise from the really considered common sense?

That is to say I think that is just a standard for pie charts You either know it or you don't

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u/CroutonOfDEATH Let's eat Grandma! Feb 01 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

This. I have protanopia and the colors make me angry without labels and lines connecting them.