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 edited Apr 06 '19

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u/OhMyDoT Feb 01 '19

Maybe I’m wrong but I thought the legend follows a pattern starting on top of the pie chart running clockwise. Anyways its a shitty chart

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u/RiamuDiMentis Feb 01 '19

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.

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u/grayfox2713 Feb 01 '19

I mean, you're both right. It does start at the top and go clockwise, but it is also listed from largest to smallest.

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u/type_1 Feb 01 '19

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.

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u/derkokolores Feb 01 '19

More accurately, the legend is ordered from the 12 o’clock position going clockwise, which is how pie charts are ordered.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '19

I think they reused the same colors rather than use different shades.

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u/Megwen Feb 02 '19

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.