I should say that the name of this chart varies even among Spanish-speaking countries. In Argentina is "diagrama de torta" which is something like "cake-chart".
Julian ahimsa campos-arceiz wrote: > Two non-eatable examples from Spain and Japan: > > in Spanish we call them "diagrama de sectores" or "gráfico de sectores". As > you can imagine it means "sectors diagram (or graph)". > > in Japanese it is called 円グラフ (en gurafu), which means "circular > graph" > > a link with its name in other languages: > http://isi.cbs.nl/glossary/term550.htm > > Cheers, > > Ahimsa > > > > On Dec 13, 2007 3:01 AM, R Heberto Ghezzo, Dr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >From Montreal, >> Some people here call it the 'pizza diagram' >> ?some not eatable names? >> salut >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Dalgaard >> Sent: Wed 12/12/2007 9:33 AM >> To: Jean lobry >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams >> >> Jean lobry wrote: >>> Dear useRs, >>> >>> by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by >> entering >>> this at your R promt: >>> >>> pie(1:5) >>> >>> Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-) >>> >>> The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper: >>> >>> @article{SpenceI2005, >>> title = {No Humble Pie: The Origins and Usage of a Statistical >> Chart}, >>> author = {Spence, I.}, >>> journal = {Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics}, >>> volume = {30}, >>> pages = {353-368}, >>> year = {2005} >>> } >>> >>> QUOTE >>> Like us, the French employ a gastronomical metaphor when >>> they refer to Playfair's pie chart, but they have preferred >>> instead to invoke the name of the wonderful round soft >>> cheese from Normandy - the camembert. When I spent 4 months >>> in Paris a few years ago, a friend invited my wife and me to >>> lunch with her elderly father who lives in Rouen, Normandy, >>> about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired - >>> coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was >>> doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the >>> activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the >>> revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented >>> several statistical graphs, including the pie chart, which I >>> referred to, in French, as <<le camembert.>> After a stunned >>> silence of perhaps a couple of seconds, the distinguished >>> elderly gentleman looked me in the eye and exclaimed, <<Mon >>> Dieu ! Notre camembert?>> >>> UNQUOTE >>> >>> So, I'm just curious: how do you refer in your own language to >>> this kind of graphic? How do you call it? >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Jean >>> >>> >> <Grin> >> >> In Danish it is "Lagkagediagram" as in the layer cakes that are >> traditional at birthday parties (and thrown at eachother's faces in >> slapstick comedy). >> >> -- >> O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B >> c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K >> (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) >> 35327918 >> ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) >> 35327907 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
