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Il met les messages Whatsapp de son ex en visualisation. Je déteste les pie charts et voici pourquoi vous devriez aussi. Pie charts. By far the most popular chart type among business users. Also the most unusable chart type. Every time a business users asks me for a pie chart a kitten a bit of me dies. In this post I explain why. Let’s start with the basics: what is a pie chart? A pie chart is a circular graph that is divided in parts (slices) by lines coming from the center. It is used for part-of-a-whole analysis, such as to compare product sales per product category. To explain what is wrong with pie charts, let’s imagine a clock. Look at the clock above: it quite clearly shows 5 o’clock right? Let’s look at the same clock again: Now the clock seems to show some minutes just before 4 o’clock, maybe 3:55? Ok, let’s now imagine a clock with three hands (often used to show seconds): See how the clock divides the circle into three sections, all of almost equal size.

Care to tell me which one is bigger? Let’s add another hand and bring the number of slices to four: Like this: Like Loading... 50 most followed GitHub users from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-11. 24heures de traffic aérien. Famous Movie Quotes as Charts.