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Toenex on Feb 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Three charts are all I need

If you want to convey an honest impression of the data then pie charts are regarded as a bad idea as humans are less adept at comparing areas as they are lengths - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_...]

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