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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 26/6/2024 (lemmy.nz)
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Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Use a bar chart. Pie charts are for marketing and pizza.

Also, no one cares if a bar chart sums to more than 100% ;-)

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno. I feel something like this works better as a pie chart.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pie charts tend to work when you have three to four categories, more than that they fall apart.

The nice thing about the bar chart is the axis label which can be the raw value rather than a percentage, having a large (7-8) number of categories is still readable especially if there minority categories.

Also, is all just my opinion, so don't let me stop you using whatever you like!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think pie charts are also helpful for when you have 10 categories but two of them make up 90% of the result.

But your bar chart preference is noted, so I'll try to make sure to include them along side pie charts 🙂

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Poor data visualisation is a pet peeve of mine and I'm disproportionately vigorous when talking about it ;-)

Especially after a few drinks with dinner.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 months ago

Haha one of my pet peves for data visualisation is graphs that don't start at zero. I get sometimes the movement is too small to visualise properly when you start from zero, but you can't probably understand the scale if you don't start at zero.

I bet you'll argue with me on that!