[R] OT: Pie charts

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Tue May 31 20:15:27 CEST 2011


We regularly get questions about making pie charts, and frequently
veer off into the philosophical and practical issues surrounding that
form of data graphic: human perception of angles and so on.

So while this isn't an R issue, I thought some of you might appreciate
this brief discussion of the efficacy of pie charts:
http://fakescience.tumblr.com/post/6042293374/understanding-pie-charts

Sarah
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Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org



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