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There'll be some who'll do very well from the West Asia war, just not you nor me.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

So the number two supplier is the 'rest of the world'.

[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It looks like a data scientist was like "yeah, a pie graph makes the most sense to use" and sent it up. Then the marketing manager was like "we need to make this sexy. How about something like a soccer ball."

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pie charts aren’t much better. Humans are terrible at comparison of wedges.

Line charts are easy to see an understand

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No effort was put into this beyond data entry. But in my opinion, for an info graphic I like the boxes. For data, I like the bars.