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Re:Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? by learningman on Saturday August 27, 2016 @08:47PM (#12374807)
Agreed for the most part, although there are rare valid uses for 3d graphs. I think most contemporary data vis people would say that Excel makes it possible to make pie charts at all means it may encourage bad practices.
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Re:Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? by ramblenode on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:55PM (#12374969)
I was hesitant about the pie chart example but it was the simplest I could think of. I'm glad someone brought this up. ;)
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Re:Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? by infinite8s on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:29PM (#12374911)
What are those rare valid uses for 3D graphs?
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Re:Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? by learningman on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:51PM (#12374958)
I can think of one-- we had a 96-element datatable (12x8) and limited space in our biochemical journal article. We were looking to graphically show differences in orders of magnitude to help explain the assay. A 3d column chart fit the bill because we could show lots of data in a small space, and readers could quickly see the range of values.
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