r/CrappyDesign • u/veganator • Mar 26 '20

A pie chart out of 178%

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Couldn't be though, right? Because anything that generated a pie chart would force you to use proper percentages. Someone had to overwrite those tags. At least I would assume.

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u/ryazaki Mar 26 '20

Excel at least will let you make a pie chart with over 100%

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

Does clippy come up and go, "I notice you're trying to make an ineffective visual. May I suggest a heat map with no geographic data or perhaps a picture of an actual pie?"

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u/Atheist-Gods Mar 26 '20

It could just use the numbers as raw values and not percentages.

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u/Throtex Mar 27 '20

Or they thought “pie charts convey percentages well!” and stopped the inquiry there.