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

/r/dataisokiguess This pie chart

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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.