guest post by Laszlo Thoth
image by Laszlo Thoth
I made this creative commons licensed picture of an Accurate Pie Chart in early 2007. Kathryn Hill baked the pie, a key lime with graham cracker crust. It was delicious.
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Genius!
Make sense!
Nice.
Best pie chart ever.
For some reason I found this hilariously funny and laughed so loud my wife thought I was sobbing and came upstairs
I don’t get it. A piece of the pie is missing.
This chart is inaccurate. What evidence do you have that you actually ate the pie and what evidence is there that YOU will consume the rest. These kind of pie charts mislead the public and create an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion. This is why healthcare reform will fail.
This graph is highly inaccurate. The silver portion only represents the amount of pie removed from the tin, not necessarily the amount eaten.
Another proof that pies are made for eating and not for charting.
You obviously haven’t done anything to account for rounding errors.
keep the government out of pie charts!
Father Guido, is that you?
If a pie’s area is pi*r^2 and that is an 8″ pie pan. this chart makes it clear that you have about 33 square inches of pie to go.
Obviously, a statistician “fudging” the truth again. Mathematicians know pie are squared.
This is going up on my office door Monday.
N, Ryan: The graph is accurate. I ate every bit of the pie represented by the silver-colored wedge in this pie chart. If you think I’m lying you could say that this graph lacks *credibility*, but not accuracy. This is at worst an accurate visual representation of a dubiously credible claim.
You inspired me to create an Accurate Bar Chart.