Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Graph Showdown: Pie vs. Bar

Vs.


My buddy Richie sent me the Meat Loaf pie graph with the explanation: "Funniest attachment I've seen in a long time. Not because I like the artist, but because I like pie graphs."

Personally, I've always been a fan of the bar graph. And not simply because I prefer bars to pies, but because I believe them to be a better visual representation of data collected for the purposes of showing contrasting values in similar entities.



Shaded maps are also pretty effective.

7 comments:

  1. Sean, it's STILL the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I'm also a new fan of the shaded map. Fantastic.

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  2. if you are a fan of hip-hop, this should have you in stitches...

    http://www.jamphat.com/rap/

    *disclaimer: I had to have someone explain some of them to me.

    -the lom

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  3. I got the Meatloaf one about 2 weeks ago and thought it was fabulous. Sadly, however, I had to admit that I didn't understand the bar graph of "whose milkshake would bring more boys to the yard: mine or yours". I had to watch a Peter Griffin demonstration to see the humour. God bless the internet.

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