Pie charts are often used to show percentages of a whole. However, Professor Adrian Barnett, a statistician at the Queensland University of Technology, and researcher Victor Ogwoma argue that ``pie ...

Adrian Barnett is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Victor Oguoma is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones ...

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To display a record of information in a graphical interface, pie charts, bar diagrams, and other such chart diagrams are the best ways to present or communicate information visually. If you don’t have ...

What an outstanding group of readers I have! Both the quality and the quantity of entries to the Graph Makeover Contest were amazing. There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which ...

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One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

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Jeff Leek at Simply Statistics has a great post that explains how Fox News presents data in a really tricky way. A lot of the issue comes in the way the data is presented. While most of the time the ...