{"id":296,"date":"2022-06-03T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/?p=296"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:00:54","slug":"misleading-pie-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/2022\/06\/03\/misleading-pie-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading pie charts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pie charts are a way of displaying data that is somewhat narrow in usage. All the percentages that appear on pie charts have to have a sum of 100, but the chart above shows multiple percentages that exceed this number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this data, something like a bar chart would be better for this type of data. Nothing here is being compared, but just shown. There are no labels either, so you wouldn&#8217;t know what the chart is even about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-1.18.58-PM-1024x866.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-1.18.58-PM-980x829.png 980w, https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-1.18.58-PM-480x406.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>Something like this would display the data better<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SOURCE: https:\/\/www.jotform.com\/blog\/bad-data-visualization\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pie charts are a way of displaying data that is somewhat narrow in usage. All the percentages that appear on pie charts have to have a sum of 100, but the chart above shows multiple percentages that exceed this number. For this data, something like a bar chart would be better for this type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dataviz22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}