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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by tantalor on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:14PM (#28322725)
Nightingale rose diagram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Polar_area_diagram

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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by sn9 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:08PM (#28323884)
Someone mentioned how the area under the curve could be misleading, and this link addresses how to correct for that:

"The radius of each sector would be proportional to the square root of the death count for the month, so the area of a sector represents the number of deaths in a month."

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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by mcculley on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:46PM (#28324097)
Author here. Yes, I didn't think of that. I will change the code to do that. Thanks.
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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by erk__ on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:21AM (#28325199)
Numberphile made a video about them 5 months ago for the same use as presented here https://youtu.be/VTdVPNvwULM
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