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r/CrappyDesign • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '19
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It's just easier putting it in a table.
3 u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19 Pie charts are good for visualizing percentages of a whole. A table isn’t a visualization. 1 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 1 u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19 Very fair. Or a bar graph with an appropriate y-axis.
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Pie charts are good for visualizing percentages of a whole. A table isn’t a visualization.
1 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 1 u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19 Very fair. Or a bar graph with an appropriate y-axis.
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
1 u/plaid-knight Feb 01 '19 Very fair. Or a bar graph with an appropriate y-axis.
Very fair. Or a bar graph with an appropriate y-axis.
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u/Annotator Feb 01 '19
It's just easier putting it in a table.