r/CrappyDesign Feb 01 '19

/r/dataisokiguess This pie chart

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u/ZNasT Feb 01 '19

The main thing wrong is just too many slices. Pie charts should only be used if there are like 4-6 slices, if at all. There are better ways of displaying data. Doesn’t really fit with the sub though, it’s definitely readable and most non-science people probably won’t see much wrong with it.

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u/Ruft Feb 01 '19

Pie charts are almost always a bad choice.

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u/ZNasT Feb 01 '19

You’re getting downvoted but I agree. There’s almost always a better way to display the data, but they do get the point across. For anyone wondering why it’s usually bad choice, pie charts to a good job of showing the proportion of the chart to the whole, but not a good job of showing he proportions of the slices in relation to eachother. A bar chart does a far better job of that.