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53% of People Prefer Pie Charts

By bcohen on December 7, 2006.

A Forum on the Presentation of Data, More or Less.

(As sent by the Good Folk at the Battle-Scarred Muffin Pan, we present pie charts and a bar graph, all from this wonderful site, titled simple "We Have Pie Charts.")

ANALYSIS OF RIFFS IN DEVO'S "SPEED RACER"
i-6f3bff90f2343d7f01f04a6100777122-devo pie chart.gif

(a propos of the recent sciency-album post Dave put up)

more samples below the fold...



TRAGEDIES, BASED ON A SURVEY OF 1000
(created by Michael Daines)

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PIRATE INFORMATION

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(switch it up, go with bar graph instead)



HOW MUCH I LIKE DINOSAURS

i-693458acc414790813b8f03c77809fc1-How Much I Like Dinosaurs.gif

WORLD POPULATION

i-6060aff7c2185a37ea7d1b41fbc8a52f-cows pie chart.jpg

(it's funny because it's true)
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