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Clock but the PM quit and was replaced halfway through the project. Handover instructions: "Make the clock hands show the current time" (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

i read them and am not refuting them. the conversation is about bad and good situations for pie charts. we're talking about a scenario in which what is being compared is two proportions. a scenario in which the articles you linked said a pie chart is a reasonable visualization

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Reasonable, but not as good as a simple bar chart.