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3d pie charts are literally the devil.

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.

If your uptime (or your percentage score in a class) is best understood/consumed on a chart with an origin of zero, you’re having a very bad time.

What you should really track and chart is your downtime.

If you’re comparing your uptime before and after a fix, you’re lying to everyone by not showing the origin.

Also why are people looking at uptime unless there was an outage? At which point you do need to show zero anyway.