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3d pie charts are literally the devil.

It's 3d pie charts, dot charts, pie charts, and any chart that has the origin set to greater than 0 in descending order of evilness.

We need a ## anniversary edition of Lying with Statistics.



If your uptime (or your percentage score in a class) is best understood/consumed on a chart with an origin of zero, you’re having a very bad time.


If you’re comparing your uptime before and after a fix, you’re lying to everyone by not showing the origin.

Also why are people looking at uptime unless there was an outage? At which point you do need to show zero anyway.


What you should really track and chart is your downtime.




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