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There are two mentions of pie charts in the course - these are offensive to data enthusiasts everywhere! #130

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AoifeHughes opened this issue Sep 28, 2022 · 0 comments
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Enhancement Improvements to current material Module 3 Data visualisation & exploration Question Query about the material or course in general

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https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/rds-course/modules/m3/3.3-Atlas0fVisualisations.html?highlight=pie#pie-charts

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https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/rds-course/modules/m3/3.1-FiguresGoneWrong.html?highlight=pie#example-9

The second link does make it clear that this is a poor choice of figure and is misleading.

The first makes a mention of https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/visualizing-proportions.html#tab:pros-cons-pie-bar

I'd like to change the language to be more firm on the evil of the pie chart, and perhaps add https://www.data-to-viz.com/caveat/pie.html as an additional external link.

Wanted to make this an issue rather than just change to invite a discussion on the off chance someone feels strongly about pie charts having a place in data science.

@AoifeHughes AoifeHughes added Enhancement Improvements to current material Question Query about the material or course in general Module 3 Data visualisation & exploration labels Sep 28, 2022
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