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by danso 2761 days ago
The difficulty for humans to interpret and compare circular areas is one of the reasons IIRC why Tufte and others are so adamant against pie charts.
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Surprises me - pie charts are properly used only to display proportions, and in a pie chart the area is proportional to the angle is proportional to the length of the arc, so there should be much less scope for confusion? We should all have good intuitions for our share of the pie or pizza, no...? :-)