Bar Charts Are Better than Pie Charts

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[@KirillBezzubkine]

Fun to finally see the man behind the cam

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[@Vishal-ek3rc]

after watching his all 28 videos of statistics playlist. here it is he introduced him. great to see u man

[@statquest]

bam!

[@qichaoying4478]

It is really rare to see Josh himself, but StatSquash more often.

[@statquest]

:)

[@raygivler]

There is research data to back up Josh's preferences. My rule of thumb is that I basically only use pie charts for a binary dimension (ie, it can only have 2 possible values like Passed/Failed, Living/Dead) and include a measure of % of whole. I use the same guidelines for donut charts, which are worse that pie charts because they exclude the central angle of the pie, which is your primary means of visual measure, and people are terrible at that anyway. I also like donuts to wind around clockwise (for whatever the positive value is) because people have a lot of experience watching a clock and can interpret the % of rotation pretty easily.

[@statquest]

Those are great guidelines! :)

[@challakartheek1]

Hi Josh your videos are so simple to understand. I am grateful to you as I am able to benefit from your videos. Wish you all the best. And it is good to see you in the video.

[@statquest]

Thank you! :)

[@ricardofranco-duarte346]

You forgot the bar for "Watching StatQuest". Both Herman and Earl love watching StatQuest :)

[@statquest]

Hooray!!!! This is the best comment ever. Thanks! You made my day. :)

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[@PRATIK1900]

As an Indian, your background made me smile :) Come over to India, you love the culture anyway it seems, I'll also not mind grabbing a few private tutoring sessions xD

[@statquest]

My "two year plan" involves a trip to India - maybe a StatQuest tour where I give StatQuest talks in a few different locations.

[@knbharath5947]

@@statquest I'll look forward to this day. I have an extra house here in Bangalore, you can stay here as long as you want.

[@statquest]

@@knbharath5947 Awesome! Thank you very much for the offer. This is still something I really want to do. Hopefully the virus will go away and we can travel again soon.

[@knbharath5947]

@@statquest yup yup..hopefully it will be sorted soon. Let me know once you are here, you and your crew/ friends can stay here itself. :)

[@Paulo51297]

Pie chart is perfect to describe bars. And bar graph is perfect to describe pies.

[@statquest]

:)

[@BrunoPeitl84]

Charts have something to do with frequency. For absolute frequency, use bar charts, for relative frequency, use pie charts and for cumulative frequency, use line charts.

[@statquest]

I'd still argue that bar charts are better than pie charts for relative frequency because it is easier to identify small differences.

[@siffo10]

Is that a tabla behind your left shoulder?

[@statquest]

Yes it is! I haven't played it in a bit, but I have a few other north indian instruments - one of which will be featured in my next song (which will come out on November 1st).

[@polostor]

I genuinly like the way you explain those things. But I have noticed that Earl is cheating.. Seems like Earl is having almost 25 hours a day - 7.5 + 8.3 + 4 + 5.. I would like to be Earl.

[@statquest]

Ha! :)

[@polostor]

@@statquest Guess what - I wouldn't have noticed in the Pie chart! :D

[@statquest]

@@polostor That's awesome! :)

[@p1xedge]

TABLA

[@statquest]

Yes! I spent a few months in Chennai a long time ago and loved the music.

[@AshishSahu25]

@@statquest wow! great to hear this.