Tuesday, December 02, 2008

I'm glad...

This guy isn't one of my students:



That said: I hate pie charts. I wish they had never been invented. Nine times out of ten - no, nine point five times out of ten - there is a better way to show the data. I think people like pie charts because they are "cute" and because they are an option in Microsoft Excel, but I tend to prefer the good old bar graph to them.

1 comment:

The Fifth String said...

Pie charts and bar graphs have their uses, but I'm more of an "x-y" type of guy.