tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998628784041768080.post2871437551641238367..comments2024-03-18T08:20:46.904+00:00Comments on VizWiz: Are pie charts a good reason to fire your stock broker?VizWizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408220384219218043noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998628784041768080.post-90656384438033715062014-07-23T04:01:35.680+01:002014-07-23T04:01:35.680+01:00Thumbs up to you Joe for the great pointersThumbs up to you Joe for the great pointersJesse Tracehttp://stockbroker101.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998628784041768080.post-42796679291301549152013-10-22T14:11:02.542+01:002013-10-22T14:11:02.542+01:00For most of people presenting data is creating pie...For most of people presenting data is creating pie charts in Excel. You will find many weird pie charts on websites of statistics offices, international companies. <br /><br />Think about job interviews, there are many questions about data analyse, programming languages, but they never check if you are able to select proper chart to data and so on. <br /><br />People don't want to learn how Russian Sphinxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187348086686401548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998628784041768080.post-31586745217022932152013-10-22T13:37:27.967+01:002013-10-22T13:37:27.967+01:00Another issue that is not visible, is the classifi...Another issue that is not visible, is the classification of what is considered in each slice. Are they using fund level descriptions or individual level descriptions? For example, a mutual fund may be classified as US Equity, but hold 15% in non-US Equities. Some reporting tools will call that 100% US Equity (based on the classification), others will report that correctly as 85 US / 15 non-US Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998628784041768080.post-14557670233929675962013-10-19T21:44:35.348+01:002013-10-19T21:44:35.348+01:00This chart certainly leaves room for improvement, ...This chart certainly leaves room for improvement, here are two more points:<br />4. two extra items in legend<br />5. to read it, we have to switch between the legend and the chart, the text is not close to the slices<br /><br />As for why they did what they did, there may be a logical order to the arrangement of the slices, it may be sorted by risk, or like placing an 'Other' as the lastJoe Makohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15643500270169278424noreply@blogger.com