Pie chart misuse reaches new level of awfulness

[boyofbadgers]

I've seen some terrible graphs in my time, but this is just ridiculous.



From andlosers, via rhodri's twitter.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that is astonishing.

[xxxlibris.livejournal.com]

In a similar spirit of 'Oh God why must such weapons be put in the hands of the foolish', here are some more graphs (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7855449@N02/sets/72157606844282993/) (as passed to me by Mr infov0re).

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Jesus fuck my eye Christ.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Opinions Dynamic!

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

What are you on about, 193%* is a completely normal size for a pie chart! It's just a bigger pie than usual!


*F@ck, I hope I counted that right or I'm going to look like a complete knob, aren't I?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Source: Opinions

the 'Dynamic' bit is a typo!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow, my eyes are bleeding!

Why didn't I heed your warning? I thought I could cope with anything, but that really is the limit!

[abi]

It's a failed breeding experiment between a pie chart and a Venn diagram!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Could people support more than one candidate? If so, the figures may not be wrong - but putting them into a pie chart was an appalling idea. Also the modern tendency to tilt pie graphs to make them 3-D makes the segments at the bottom look larger than equally sized ones at the top, which defeats the whole point of such a chart.

BSc. Econ. Hons IR

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I thought this was about the Oscars for about 30 seconds.

(using my film knowledge last updated in about 2003, obviously)

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

How is this possible?

[uon.livejournal.com]

There is only ever one correct use for a pie chart (http://www.etre.com/blog/2006/11/pacman_piechart/).

In a sense...

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I don't like pie charts quite so much as PIE.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

pie chart=WTF

associtions with PIE = that's more like it/the only possible gain from exposure to teh above horrors

mmmmmmpieeeeee