Mosaic plots: responsive, flexbox-based parts-to-whole visualizations

Re:Mosaic plots: responsive, flexbox-based parts-to-whole vi... by lynaghk on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @01:52PM (#8625545)

Stephen Few has an excellent overview of why pie charts should be avoided: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intel...

Neither pies nor mosaic charts should be used if you need exact readings of the data --- though mosaic plots do have the advantage of being rectangular, making segments much easier to label with values than the segments of pie charts.

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Re:Mosaic plots: responsive, flexbox-based parts-to-whole vi... by Gravityloss on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:05PM (#8625990)

I disagree partly. It's easier to estimate relative shares of a total from a pie chart compared to his linear examples.

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Re:Mosaic plots: responsive, flexbox-based parts-to-whole vi... by amalag on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:59PM (#8626313)

I am also not so convinced. I still like a simple pie-chart.

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