For people that think pie charts005 Archivesan effect means of displaying data, one man on Twitter has news for you: they're utterly useless.

Economist and data analytics junkie, Max Roser, tweeted an image of pie charts versus bar charts to demonstrate how pie charts cannot accurately display the differences in close data.

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The tweet went viral because the internet is a curious place full of curious people. Replies ranged from genuinely passionate tweets about data visualizations to hilarious pie chart memes.

Genuine discussion:

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Funny:

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Serious:

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Funny:

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Constructive argument:

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More funny:

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Only the internet turn pie charts into comedy gold and, for that, we are thankful.

Mashable has reached out to Max Roser.