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Re:How do people in different countries spend their time? by pmjoyce on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @07:54AM (#2466190)
A classic example of a poor choice of visualisation. Pie and donuts aren't always useless but they're very awkward to interpret here.

I made a quick'n'dirty replacement using a stacked column chart if anyone is interested:

https://demo.geckoboard.com/dashboard/CF6225A8BF97972D/

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Re:How do people in different countries spend their time? by billybob on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @08:29AM (#2466298)
Better, but still hard to read, I think. If I want to compare the green bars for two countries, they don't sit side by side, because the sections under them are of varying heights.

I think this would be more ideal:

Country 1 Work :XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (X%)

Country 2 Work :XXXXXXXXXXXXX (X%)

Country 1 Sleep:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (X%)

Country 2 Sleep:XXXXXXXXXXXX (X%)

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Re:How do people in different countries spend their time? by pmjoyce on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @08:59AM (#2466393)
OK, I've added detail charts - one for each metric - so you can easily compare metrics for each country side-by-side.
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