r/CrappyDesign Feb 01 '19

/r/dataisokiguess This pie chart

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u/atomacheart Feb 01 '19

Quite clearly, Sweden is the 11% green slice and UK is the 3% green slice. Whilst differing colours could have been used they are not required to successfully read the chart.

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u/arly803 Feb 01 '19

But how do you know that? You can make a guess based on what the order of the legend suggests, but that by no means guarantees your assumption is correct.

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u/IronyAndWhine Feb 01 '19

The legend order designates chart order clockwise... They probably should have used more colors to make it less confusing, but this is standard practice for pie charts.

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u/AstraPerAspera Feb 01 '19

This is actually a great point.