The pie chart presents company forecasts as to when production with return to pre-disaster levels.

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Jess3 had a job to do in making their pie chart, and I am sure the brief was not (only) to accurately represent data.

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"It's just illuminating to a lot of people to see on the pie chart that this is what I spent on travel, food or housing expenses, " he said.

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You need a classy pie chart, or a 3D graphic of a software-stack or one of those social network symbols with a circle and branches coming out of it.

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Then imagine an Obama supporter counters with a pie chart saying that 99.99% of all people who have looked into the matter have determined that President Obama is a US citizen.

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And in terms of predictive analysis, a pie chart of where someone goes most frequently, or who they tweet to, is simple data crunching that a human analyst could do, albeit with more time and effort.

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This history reflects the more basic budget math that eludes most static thinking commentators, especially the pie chart lady Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post. (Pie charts of the budget reflect the most static thinking).

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Look at the pie chart above.

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The whole idea was that the speaker would talk for a while, and then occasionally show a slide that illustrated a point with a picture or a striking image, or made a set of numbers clear with a bar graph or a pie chart.

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