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The Pie Chart shown in the image would have been more meaningful if it had depicted the results of a simple survey \u2013 \u201cWhat is your most favorite type of pie?\u201d But it is trying to represent the top three favorites. The participants were in fact asked to rank their three favorites. Hence it is quite impossible to understand from this chart which pie was ranked No. 1 favorite by maximum number of participants. For example, though Apple pie tops the chart with 47%, it is quite possible that several participants voted Apple pie as their 3rd<\/sup> favorite, not their top favorite. Hence, in spite of attractive graphics, this chart is quite misleading, fails to communicate the survey results effectively and hence a failed visualization.<\/p>\n To avoid this kind of failure, understanding the data we are trying to visualize is extremely important. In this example, if pie charts were the way to go, a single pie chart would not suffice to depict the survey results. Also, while designing a visualization, giving too much importance to the graphics is good only if it does not take away the focus from the fundamental objective of the visualization \u2013 effective representation of data.<\/p>\n Image source:<\/p>\n http:\/\/euclid.psych.yorku.ca\/datavis\/gallery\/images\/pies\/pie-chart-02.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Reference:<\/p>\n http:\/\/euclid.psych.yorku.ca\/datavis\/gallery\/evil-pies.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pie Chart shown in the image would have been more meaningful if it had depicted the results of a simple survey \u2013 \u201cWhat is your most favorite type of pie?\u201d But it is trying to represent the top three favorites. The participants were in fact asked to rank their three favorites. Hence it is … Continue reading An appealing but failed visualization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1851,"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-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"rkesavan","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/rkesavan\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"The Pie Chart shown in the image would have been more meaningful if it had depicted the results of a simple survey \u2013 \u201cWhat is your most favorite type of pie?\u201d But it is trying to represent the top three favorites. The participants were in fact asked to rank their three favorites. Hence it is…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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\/1851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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