Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for August 09, 2021

Well pie charts on a easel can’t be hacked.

Venn will they stop?

The startup I worked for sold software components (you don’t need to know what that is to understand the story). We always sent two sales people to the big companies who might be interested in our stuff: One person wore the gender-appropriate equivalent of a suit and tie, and used an electronic overhead projector to present the business case to the mahogany row denizens. The other wore jeans and a plain shirt and used an easel and a pad of blank newsprint which he drew on, to sell to the folks who would actually be using the components. It was a very successful technique.

What are the other companies using their easels for?

How are they displaying their pie charts?

And that’s the beauty of it, simple as pie!

Just wait till the power goes out.

A good statistician can prove or disprove anything using the same statistics. It all depends on who’s footing the bill.

“If this Twinkie represented all the psychokinetic energy used to make pie charts…..”

I still se pie charts on Twitter, web pages, etc. But not on easels. But then, how do you get an easel on Twitter?

Um, if they are the only one, shouldn’t they be the BIG piece of pie?

Pi are round ?

Bill Gates used an overhead projector and transparencies to sell the vaporware that eventually became Windows.

As a data analyst, I have an appreciation for useless metrics.

Let’s meet again in one week and brainstorm. Write it in your Day-timers…

That’s why all the others have stopped using pie charts, people think of pie and don’t pay attention…

A fairly universal pie chart depicting the Unites States versus the rest of the world on many measurements.

And probably drawing them by hand, too.

They should try using a rhombus. Yes, rhombus.

And one of the very few in the US that don’t use Powerpoint.

When do we get pie?????!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

This is how we’ve always done it. vs Why show the same results with $3 worth of materials, when wee can spend thousands on technology, to show the same thing ?