<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">"MMMmmmm! Pie." --Homer Simpson <BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 11/15/09, Don Coombs <I><mushroom@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Don Coombs <mushroom@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] National Center for Atmospheric Research: Record Daily High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows In US<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 6:11 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail> Paul Rumelhart wrote:<BR><BR>> <BR>> Would it have killed them to provide the simple numbers of record highs <BR>> and lows next to the by-decade ratios? I'd rather see more information <BR>> in a graph than a cute picture of the US and large 3D bars.<BR>> <BR><BR>Paul: You should be grateful they didn't put the data <BR>into a pie-chart. Somehow.<BR><BR>I'm going to start a non-profit to work toward allowing <BR>pie-charts to be used only in connection with data from <BR>bakeries and home ovens.<BR><BR>Don Coombs<BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A>
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