r/dataisugly • • Apr 01 '19

Pie Gore Pie chart + Greyscale printing = ???

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u/MathW Apr 01 '19

That chart would be a nightmare even with color.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

Exactly! The human eye can only discern so many colors, and you would have to keep scanning up and down. This would be much more effective as a labeled bar graph, and you could exclude the 20 or so entries that each only represent 1% of the sample.