Tuesday 31 May 2016

Pie charts and perceptual anchors

There have been some information on a couple of really excellent research papers on pie charts released today from Robert Kosara (@eagereyes) and Drew Skau (@SeeingStructure) :

https://eagereyes.org/papers/a-pair-of-pie-chart-papers

I had, coincidentally, been doing some research of my own on perceptual anchors and how that relates to performance of pie charts versus stacked bar charts in part-to-whole comparisons. It would suggest that pies are not the terrible bad-guy after all. Who knew!



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