{"id":299,"date":"2017-01-22T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=299"},"modified":"2017-01-22T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T06:13:15","slug":"just-a-pretty-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/01\/22\/just-a-pretty-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a pretty picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-300 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/files\/2017\/01\/twitter-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"twitter\" width=\"436\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/files\/2017\/01\/twitter-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/files\/2017\/01\/twitter.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pie chart in the image above reflects 100 most active Tweeters. The chart is neither conveying the information which it claims to nor is appealing to explore the information presented. The colors used to spread the data information makes it attractive and pretty. But representing the top 100 of anything and especially in the pie chart is always\u00a0a bad\u00a0idea. Plus the colors are spread out in smaller to smaller wedges making this visualization more like a puzzle to match the colors.<\/p>\n<p>Also I think the data lacks with the percentage share. It would be\u00a0better to limit such analysis to\u00a0top\u00a020 users\u00a0with bubble or gantt chart. While using pie charts its better to limit pie wedges to maximum 6.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/chandoo.org\/wp\/2009\/08\/28\/nightmarish-pie-charts\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The pie chart in the image above reflects 100 most active Tweeters. The chart is neither conveying the information which it claims to nor is appealing to explore the information presented. The colors used to spread the data information makes it attractive and pretty. But representing the top 100 of anything and especially in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/01\/22\/just-a-pretty-picture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just a pretty picture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1883,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"roopadaga","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/roopadaga\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; The pie chart in the image above reflects 100 most active Tweeters. The chart is neither conveying the information which it claims to nor is appealing to explore the information presented. The colors used to spread the data information makes it attractive and pretty. But representing the top 100 of anything and especially in&hellip;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}