Are we being shortchanged in our Celebrations tubs?
Here’s a chance to provide some data for an important study. It probably helps if you like chocolate.
My final, new improved bar chart with a different tub of Celebrations. Note the purpose made graph paper
Yesterday I posted a tongue-in-cheek picture on Facebook of a bar chart (not the one above) that I made up of sweets in a Celebrations tub. It was a riposte to a pie chart that Simon Brew had done here. As someone who likes good data visualisation I find pie charts nearly always to be worse than a bar chart – if you want to know why read Edward Tufte or this or this.
Below, on the left is Simon’s pie chart, and on the right is the bar chart I did with my own tub of Celebrations. My bar chart shows I’m clearly being short changed on the Malteasers (which I love) and there are far too many Bounty bars (who likes Bounty bars?!?).
Simon’s bar chart
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December 21, 2015 at 1:46 pm
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December 24, 2015 at 11:17 am
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December 24, 2015 at 11:28 am
A spokesperson for the Amalgamated Society of Confectionery Producers said ‘In the interests of consumer health we have an ongoing programme of pack size reduction…next year we will be launching a selection tub called ‘Commiserations’ which will contain nothing but fun-size Bounty bars and Tangerine Creams.’