> Everyone loves pie!
Oh gosh, no! Count me among those who greatly dislike pie charts in almost every context.
"Almost never use a pie chart for data"
https://theconversation.com/heres-why-you-should-almost-neve...
Oh gosh, no! Count me among those who greatly dislike pie charts in almost every context.
"Almost never use a pie chart for data"
https://theconversation.com/heres-why-you-should-almost-neve...
"Hey, how do you draw a 3d pie chart?"
"What?" I asked. "Why?"
"Well, Excel can do them. And somebody saw one. Now they want our software to draw them."
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, I need it like now. I'm supposed to demo it later today."
So I get out a sheet of paper, draw some triangles, and work out that projection math. He walks away with the paper. Half an hour later, he calls me over.
"Hey, it's a 3d pie chart!"
And there it was: On a screen I was all too familiar with, where the 2d pie chart used to be, was a squat 3d pie chart, looking like it was a fat inch thick. Of course, there was too much margin above and below, because of the flatter aspect ratio, but hey, it was 3d and it was good enough for a demo.
I think that was the first day I realized that programming can be used for evil.
It's 3d pie charts, dot charts, pie charts, and any chart that has the origin set to greater than 0 in descending order of evilness.
We need a ## anniversary edition of Lying with Statistics.
Also why are people looking at uptime unless there was an outage? At which point you do need to show zero anyway.