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Randy Krum on Why Most Charts Suck and More Deadly Data Viz Sins

The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization

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The Scale of Visual Perception in Pie Charts

We're just not really wired to properly assess what's going on in a circle or compare them to each other, especially like when it comes to width and height. There is a scale of visual perception that i first pulled out alberto cairo's book. And there are reasons to visualize data in different areas. You don't always have to be hyper precise,. Like garcharts. Sometimes you're just looking for a general idea of pop ion density across a state.

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