Those pie charts are really hard to read. Those colors are too similar.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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There are numbers, too.
But I'll look into it. I'm using DataWrapper and it's not very customizable.
My guess is that these out of the box colors are probably fine with 3 or 4 things. But with a lot of items, you’re really forced to rely on the key.
Yes, you're right. I changed tha graph for instances and will look into the others. But not today 😴
For a second it had me thinking Im color blind
You don't like 4 shades of blue?
More like 20
Need an eyedropper tool to figure out which color represents each country
With a mouse, you can hover over it and it will highlight the corresponding part.
No mouse on phone :( why not use the full spectrum of colors? There's like a 1 shade difference between each one
That's the standard in DataWrapper. From my experience they surely have a blogpost on why this is the only right way to do it. 😉
That's so weird, It's great info but so hard to parse!
I found their explanation and as I suspected, they don't want to distract you. 😉 https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/pie-charts But they're also saying, that this is not the right chart for so many values. So I'll retry.
Thanks, very usefull!
I am relatively new to the fediverse.
What is the verification process?
They'll basically have to have a link to the account in their website.
Doesn't seem to work on firefox Android
It takes a couple of seconds to load the data.
Oh, sorry
I also noticed that, maybe it would help to add some kind of loading progress indicator?
Yeah, I'll try