Misleading and Unreadable Data Visualization
[via Graphjam]
I stumbled upon this little gem and thought I would share it here. With all of the discussion lately around pie charts, I thought this one may either get a chuckle or help drive home a point. That point is to stay away from 3-D pie charts because the only thing worse than a pie chart is a 3-D pie chart.
As Jon recently said, “Leave the donuts for the cops and the pies for the diners, and visit a nice bar.”
P.S. I definitely fall into the yellow and green segments if I can vote twice. Where do you fall?
November 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
That’s another problem with pie charts. You want to vote twice, but you can’t in the pie. However, in a bar chart, you could easily count all people who select a given category, even if they select more than one.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Just say NO!