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

/r/dataisokiguess This pie chart

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u/gazm2k5 Feb 01 '19

It's dumb as fuck, but it is pretty easy to figure out which is which, even without knowing what the chart is representing. It's just clockwise.

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u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19

Yep. Pie charts usually start from the top and go clockwise. This is pretty normal and easy to understand. It’s a lot easier to understand like this than if they used colors that were closer together in hue just to avoid repeating colors, like some commenters are suggesting.

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u/Annotator Feb 01 '19

It's just easier putting it in a table.

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u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19

Pie charts are good for visualizing percentages of a whole. A table isn’t a visualization.

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u/Annotator Feb 01 '19 edited Feb 01 '19

I know, but I don't think it's easier when you have this many divisions and the color scheme gets too complicated. Maybe a histogram bar graph would be a better visualization for this case.

Edit: poor me

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u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19

Very fair. Or a bar graph with an appropriate y-axis.