Spending data visualisation

[bhonobo (Patrick)]

I haven’t seen Tom writing about pie charts on this forum but Hugo is definitely a critic and I would tend to agree with him on this.

Where are the doughnuts?

Well, it’s kind of a tricky problem. Every time we’ve considered circular charts we’ve come to the conclusion that they weren’t really the best solution for the problem we were trying to solve. Pie charts (for our use case) have two big problems: Spending is usually really skewed towards rent and bills so any pie chart of spending is likely to have maybe a 50% of the chart precision gone in just one category. That leaves very little room for the rest of spending. Categories with little sp…