This year's current contender for worst informatio...
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Patrick S
03/24/2022, 3:24 PMThis year's current contender for worst information graphic goes to this beautiful entry from the land of Crypto: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-03-15-3
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Myka Forrest
03/24/2022, 3:32 PMBut...WHY???? This HURTS the mathematician/statistician in me. What's the point of a a pie chart if you can't see the entirety of each slice??
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Tim
03/24/2022, 3:34 PMand where 20% is half a pie....
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Patrick S
03/24/2022, 3:34 PMAnd why is 55% closer to 75%? And that is one fat 1%... The more you look, the worse it gets
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Tim
03/24/2022, 3:37 PMto its credit, the numbers do all add up to 100%. though the style of the infographic made me think they would not.
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Pete Williamson
03/24/2022, 3:58 PMmaybe it's more 3 dimensional than you think, and the Z axis makes the 3d shapes into accurate representations of those %
that 1.0 is just very, very thin
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Mark Takata (Adobe)
03/24/2022, 4:21 PMwow.
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rstewart
03/24/2022, 5:00 PMand maybe @Pete Williamson you are giving some beret-wearing goateed graphique artiste way more credit than merited? 🙂
rstewart
03/24/2022, 5:11 PMI laughed when I read the linked article where it says, in describing the chart, “… which was later determined to be a stock photo of a pie chart where they’d just changed the numbers”.
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Brian
03/25/2022, 7:39 PMIs that the Sydney Opera House?
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Patrick S
03/25/2022, 7:42 PMActually it is titled "Pacman descending a staircase"
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