Pie Charts Criticism
Cluster focuses on critiques of pie charts in data visualizations for being hard to read and compare, with strong recommendations to use bar charts instead.
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Understood. We're always looking for better ways to visualize this data, so we'll bear these comments in mind.
Wouldn't bar charts show that too but without the issues mentioned in the article?
It’s not clear to me what the chart supposed to be showing.
This would be a lot better without pie charts.
My PhD adviser's rule of thumb with pie charts: don't use pie charts.
Perhaps I'm missing something, I don't why this chart is supposed to be useful.
I think some charts would communicate the point better than pure text in this case.
An unusual chart to convey simple information, and requires explanation, is a poor way to visualize your data. Only make a unique visualization if necessary to convey unique data. So, as you said, here just stick with the bar chart!
Pie charts considered harmful:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Discussion_on_use
That's an awesome chart to visualize