Tag: Pie Charts

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#OneLessPie for Pi Day

Last week, I celebrated the progress we've seen in cleaning up wayward pie charts, and today I again use Pi Day as an opportunity to give the world #OneLessPie. Since I am at Discovery Summit Europe in Amsterdam this week, I chose a European topic for my makeover. I started

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Progress on #OneLessPie

Pi Day (3/14) is next week, and once again, we are encouraging everyone in the data visualization community to use this day as motivation to help clean up ineffective pie charts within their organization or in public spaces like Wikipedia. I think there is still a mindset outside of our community that a pie

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#OneLessPie chart on Pi Day 2015

Last year, we launched the #OneLessPie initiative to use Pi Day (March 14 or 3/14) as a catalyst to improve the data visualization landscape. Many experts have criticized pie charts as a poor way to communicate information, and we listed some of the pitfalls of pie charts last year. But

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Making #onelesspie with JMP

It's wonderful to see the #onelesspie effort gathering interest, especially on twitter. For my introductory post yesterday, I wanted to focus on encouraging people to improve pie charts everywhere. In this post, I want to show you how I remade the pie chart in JMP. Here's the original: The first

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#OneLessPie chart on Pi Day

It's become too easy and common for data visualization practitioners to point to flaws in pie charts and other artless visualizations. Far better is to pair criticism with demonstrated improvements. Kaiser Fung's junkcharts blog is the pioneer in backing words with actions, but there’s nothing stopping the rest of us