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skilesare
on March 8, 2010
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Why 3D pie charts are bad
Your brain doesn't see pixels. It sees volume. And it is really good at doing so. You can process 1000x the amount of information in 3D that you can in 2D.
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jcl
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No, your brain sees pixels and guesses at volume. And it is spectacularly bad at comparing the angles of a pie chart drawn in 3D perspective.
For example:
http://www.olivierlorrain.com/2010/02/21/data-visualization-...
gjm11
on March 8, 2010
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Not when what you're presented with is a 3d pie chart, you can't.
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