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November 13, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Pie chart in eWeek article
Lore Eargle points out:
I was reading an article titled Outsourcing is Here to Stay in eWeek, and in the second part of the article there is a section that shows a pie chart displaying responses to the question - Is your company budgeting for outsourcing any IT activities to an offshore company in 2006?
Note the disparity between the numbers and the divisions in the pie chart on the far right - 65% is taking up less space on the pie chart then 35%.
"Three of these things belong together. Three of these things are kinda the same....." Totally reminds me of that Sesame Street skit where they show you a bunch of similar things and you gotta pick out the wrong one. Good to know big corporations think in the simple terms of children's television. Makes me feel better knowing billions of dollars are being spent on something a large yellow bird could come up with.(I know it was probably a printing error, but money was still spent on it. They should have proofread a little more closely)
I wonder what's wrong: the graphics, the Yes/No, or the percentages? If the graphics are wrong, then more companies are saying yes. If the Yes/No or the percentages are wrong, then more companies are saying no.
I thought this was a column for things that are "broken." Give 'em a break. Everyone makes mistakes.
This is hilarious. I can usually understand them making a small text mistake in an article (even though it was reveiwed), but wouldn't you think they would pay more attention to checking their visuals than their text, I mean, more people probably look at the pictures in an article than read the whole thing.
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Hmm I wonder if they outsource their pie charts?>
Posted by: Infinity306 at November 13, 2006 02:29 AM