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How big is the oil market (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] cmac@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (3 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?

[–] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 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

[–] LodeMike 4 points 4 months ago

Area of circle

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I think it's areas.