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Magazine article
Here’s why you should (almost) never use a pie chart for your data
The Conversation, Vol.8 January 2024
2024
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones monitor our time and internet usage and online surveys discern our opinions and likes. These data harvests are used for telling us how well we’ve slept or what we might like to buy.
Numbers are becoming more important for everyday life, yet people’s numerical skills are falling behind. For example, the percentage of Year 12 schoolchildren in Australia taking higher and intermediate mathematics has been declining for decades.
To help the average person understand big data and numbers, we often use visual summaries, such as pie charts. But while non-numerate folk will avoid numbers, most numerate folk will avoid pie charts. Here’s why.
Details
- Title
- Here’s why you should (almost) never use a pie chart for your data
- Authors
- Adrian Barnett - Queensland University of TechnologyVictor Oguoma - The University of Queensland
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.8 January 2024
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.x6ry5psru
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Organisation Unit
- Thompson Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991125406102621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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