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[โ€“] cmac@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Since they're rendered to look like spheres are the numbers proportional to the area of the circle, or the volume of the sphere?

[โ€“] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 months ago

I've received the advice that you should always make your charts so that you numbers are proportional to a length, since people aren't good at comparing areas (or volumes).

So the numbers here probably ought to be proportional to diameters

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