Description

I was in college when I first head that pie graphs were bad. I didn’t really understand why at first, but I always appreciated how easy they were to make in Excel and Minitab. This podcast describes an in-class activity I’ve conducted in several statistics classes. I’ll show some data I’ve collected on why pie charts are problematic compared to other visualizations. Read the post to see some of the visualizations: https://arbor-analytics.com/post/2021-03-12-some-data-on-why-pie-graphs-are-bad/

Other papers published by Cleveland and McGill in the mid-1980's:

• Cleveland, W.S., and R. McGill. 1984. Graphical perception: theory, experimentation, and application to the development of graphical methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association 79: 531-554.
• Cleveland, W.S., and R. McGill. 1985. Graphical perception and graphical methods for analyzing scientific data. Science 229: 828-833.

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