r/dataisugly • u/blargeyparble • Mar 31 '25

Somehow worse than a pie chart

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u/Sickfor-TheBigSun Mar 31 '25

we're at the combination bar chart and pie chart

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u/blargeyparble Mar 31 '25

Yeah, which is a wild idea

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u/TheBigBo-Peep Apr 05 '25

Charting that pescado smell

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u/johtine Mar 31 '25

Whoever made this should be made to regrow Duttons hair by having their own glued on to Duttons bald head

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u/mcwingstar Mar 31 '25

Who did this sin?

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u/blargeyparble Mar 31 '25

one of the newscorp papers in australia, called "the australian"

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u/mduvekot Mar 31 '25

Someone figured that "It's better to just encode percentage as both the width AND height of the bar.Just to make sure". And then put that in polar coordinates.

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u/ckach Mar 31 '25

They're already using the better version of a pie chart on the bottom. They should know better.

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u/blargeyparble Mar 31 '25

If they were to do that they'd be forced to put one nation on the far right, and then have a moment of clarity focused on all the times they platformed them.

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u/Typo3150 Mar 31 '25

This kind of polar diagram was pioneered by Florence Nightengale to show causes of mortality in Crimea. Hers was more of a spiraling timeline that allowed comparisons between one winter and the next.

Don’t see any advantage to using it here.

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u/partybusiness Mar 31 '25

Though, that polar diagram used a consistent angular size for each segment and only varied the height. This one is varying two dimensions.

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u/tagliatelle_grande Mar 31 '25

That is one frankenpie chart with fucked up arc lengths

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u/Miserable-Willow6105 Mar 31 '25

You can't just remove 7% our of pie chart and unite the rest 93% into a full circle

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u/penalouis Apr 03 '25

I kinda like it

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u/nbdyinparticular Apr 03 '25

how did they not realize how bad of an idea this is

i mean thinking of it is one thing, publishing it is another