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jcl
on March 8, 2010
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Why 3D pie charts are bad
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-...
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