Comments on: How can we upgrade a 3D Piechart?

By: pizzza

pizzza — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:56:21 +0000

Whoops, sorry. Try again.

Also, I added an entry for this on http://www.parseerror.com/vis/ under "Good".

By: Wiederkehr

Wiederkehr — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:11:50 +0000

Thanks for including my example in your collection.
Unfortunately I can't see the linked image as it is redirecting me to a diagonal.png — could you provide a working link?

By: pizzza

pizzza — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:13:06 +0000

Fascinating challenge, simplification. I think you nailed it.

However, the original issue in the article was annual growth. I took the information in the table at http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-… and plotted a line graph of browser relative market share and came up with: http://parseerror.com/vis/how-can-we-upgrade-a-…

There's nothing like relative growth figures to blow things out of proportion, that's why the stock market people love it.

(the data and numbers are current for Apr 22, 2010 and do not match the original figures)

By: Benjamin Wiederkehr

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:57 +0000

Pedro Monteiro from whatype.com has suggested the following visualization of the same data. 100 per cent are represented by 10 on 10 blocks and the different parts are distinguished by color.The image on the left is the actual refinement and the right image compares screen real-estate between the pie- and block-chart. One thing I would criticize are the difficulties with parts smaller than one per cent.

By: Wiederkehr

Wiederkehr — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:00 +0000

By: Benjamin Wiederkehr

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:31 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Michael. I agree with both, the pro and the contra for the concentric rings. The ring close to the center of these rings appears to be much smaller than the one on the periphery. Thus we need the user to ignore this information and instead focuse on the radius of the rings.

By: Wiederkehr

Wiederkehr — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:00 +0000

By: Michael VanDaniker

Michael VanDaniker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:18:17 +0000

You could use concentric rings to merge the best features of pie charts and bar charts. In such a visualization a full 360 degrees would represent 100%. It would be obvious that a wedge that wraps halfway around the circle represents 50%, and you’d still able to compare one datum to another because the rings would be side by side. The problem you might run into is that the rings in the center might appear less important because they take up less space than comparable rings on the outer edge.

By: Michael VanDaniker

Michael VanDaniker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:18:00 +0000

By: Benjamin Wiederkehr

Benjamin Wiederkehr — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:07:47 +0000

Mosaic charts seem a solid solutions vor multiple variables. I'll do a makeover of the visualization to see whether a line representing 100% would do a good job clearing things up.If some of our readers would like an introduction to mosaic plots, I recommend reading this definition from Steve Simon.