Comments on: I Keep Saying, Use Bar Charts, Not Pies

By: links for 2011-03-17 « Science Training for Journalists

links for 2011-03-17 « Science Training for Journalists — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:01:09 +0000

[...] I Keep Saying, Use Bar Charts, Not Pies | Peltier Tech Blog | Excel Charts So, class, what’s the proper chart type for this kind of data? [...]

By: AnnMaria

AnnMaria — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:44:46 +0000

I liked your inclusion of Oprah! You touched on one of my very sore spots in statistics, which is the cavalier acceptance that whatever assumptions we make about the data are true, for example, one would think that a chart showing who is favored in a presidential race asked the question, “If the presidential election were held today, for whom would you vote?”

If those assumptions are false, whether we use a pie chart, bar chart or generalized linear mixed model, our results are no more likely to be true than just asking the magic 8-ball.

By: mrt

mrt — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:29:10 +0000

Jon -

On pie charts -

http://www.militarytimes.com/blogs/broadside/2010/05/12/greenside-of-the-week-may-12-2010/

…mrt

By: Redesigned Visualizations « Visualization Blog

Redesigned Visualizations « Visualization Blog — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:20:53 +0000

[...] Redesigned Visualization – Jon Peltier’s take on the same data [...]

By: Automatically Group Smaller Slices in Pie Charts to one big Slice | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:09:06 +0000

[...] Peltier can stand on his roof and shout in to a megaphone “Use Bar Charts, Not Pies“, but the fact remains that most of us use pie charts sometime or other. In fact I will go [...]

By: David Gerbino

David Gerbino — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:21:37 +0000

Gregory Bankos,

wow, you are a bit upset over Jon’s comments. I am a news junkie and watch as much as I can of ALL networks. I get insulted when they pass off the kind of junk that Jon showed us. I am in the minority because I know better. Based on your comments you know better. Good for you.

When Jon says “My comment was as much about television news shows in general as about Fox News, about television viewers in general, and about the apparent decline in viewers’ IQs while the idiot box is energized. ” I have to agree. The sad reality is, most people of the world do not know how to read charts and graphs correctly nor do they know how to create them.

Jon Peltier should be applauded for showing these horrible data visualizations.

As far as insulting people watching TV news and the professionals creating the poor data visualizations, maybe Jon should. But that is just my opinion.

@dmgerbino