A challenge: How would you pay for troops? Nov 13, 2009
Pie chart of budget outlays for fiscal year 2007 ... A REAL conservative would not have a FEDERAL pie chart ... A REAL conservative would SCOFF at the idea of a Federal spending/revenue pie chart. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
They get no respect, I tell ya Nov 12, 2009
Someone posted a pie chart the other day, that I absolutely loved. It showed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Solar India and its Parallel Universe Nov 5, 2009
So Malaysia is a huge exporter of PV cells and panels but domestic use is yet to show up in the global pie chart. No reason why India would be any different except for its excruciating power shortages. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Quicken 2010 Takes Cues from the Web Nov 2, 2009
A major interface overhaul begins with a home screen that reflects the simplified design esthetic of sites such as and (the latter is in the ): You see three stacked modules, starting with a colorful pie chart showing the previous month's spending by major categories along with (in large type) the total spent. The middle module shows what bills are coming due in the next two weeks, along with Quicken's calculations (based on your input for income) of how much money (again shown in large type)... (BusinessWeek)
Funny cat photos lead to serious Web empire Oct 29, 2009
com, a blog illustrating the frustrations of daily life in graphical form - such as the "Thoughts When a Car Alarm Goes Off" pie chart displaying a tiny red sliver for "Someone's car is being stolen!" while the remainder is dedicated to "That's annoying, go deactivate it.". Much like other online success stories, the content is created by other people and merely aggregated on the sites. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Gridiron Grump: Time for a Grumptastic Coaches Breakfast Oct 23, 2009
At the bottom of the correspondence, it read: Times are tough all over the country, Mr. Grump. So we are slicing your official Coaches Breakfast budget to 15. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Mastrangelo: Penny poll shows support for education and health care Oct 23, 2009
Several participants compared the piles of pennies in the jars with a pie chart detailing the allocation of 2009 U.S. taxes. That circle graph showed 44 percent of taxes spent on military spending and cost of past wars, with only 3 percent dedicated to science, energy and environment, and 2. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
IIJ Strengthens Compliance Function of IIJ Secure Web Gateway Service Oct 13, 2009
-- Access ratio by individual Access ratio for the top 10 users(*2) and other users is presented in a pie chart as well as in a list. -- Access by individual User name, access count, access ratio, request volume, and response volume are presented in a spreadsheet for the top 30 users(*2) and all other users. (Primezone Releases)
Finding the small business that's right for you Sep 19, 2009
Answer all of the questions and your personality make-up will be displayed in a pie chart graphic. REAL PEOPLE; REAL CHALLENGES. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Obama speech to students sparks new controversy Sep 5, 2009
fatman2 wrote on Sep 4, 2009 6:15 PM:" Bush one spoke to students. Not Bush two. If Bush two had done this, libs would have gone to the Supreme court to block it. The difference is this, Bush I and Reagan were not taking over, or trying to take over, the banking, auto, health and Utility industries. They did not have "czars". And Tim, I really don't care what you think of my parenting skills. My kids have turned out just fine. I'm not too crazy about the liberal college educations they've been... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The long road to HTML 5 Aug 29, 2009
So if a user is crunching data and would like to see a pie chart or graph, the canvas element can display the chart without transmitting the information back to the server for rendering. "Canvas allows you to carve out an area on the screen and start painting it," Vinogradsky said. (FCW.com)
Pentagon profiling reporters... Aug 27, 2009
This pie chart was extracted from a report by The Rendon Group, evaluating the focus of coverage by a reporter for a major U.S. newspaper. It indicates the firms conclusion that the reporters coverage was 83. (The Drudge Report)
CEO's own words knock Whole Foods selections Aug 26, 2009
His blog includes a pie chart called The American Diet: Designed for Disease. The offenders. (Fresno Bee)
Perm Fund execs grilled Aug 16, 2009
Historically, the permanent fund's allocation strategy has been defined as a series of percentages stating relative target values of the permanent fund by investment type - essentially a pie chart with slices for stocks, bonds, real estate, infrastructure, etc. The new strategy defines the pie slices in a qualitatively different way. (Juneau Empire)
Building a Media Empire Around I Can Has Cheezburger Aug 16, 2009
" What's working, exactly, is a series of viral humor sites intended simply "to make people happy for five minutes a day," as Huh puts it. Huh, 31, a journalist turned dotcom entrepreneur, was born in South Korea and moved to California when he was in his teens. He launched Pet Holdings in 2007 when angel investors helped him buy a new website called I Can Has Cheezburger?, which is a compendium of "Lolcats," laugh-out-loud feline photos captioned in "kitty pidgin," or artfully misspelled... (Time.com)
Health care legislation is dishonest Jul 29, 2009
My question is: Where are all the libs and their cute little pie chart bumper stickers protesting the debt and budget ... My question is: Where are all the libs and their cute little pie chart bumper stickers protesting the debt and budget. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Advice Helpful Or Not Comes To FCC Jul 26, 2009
On the eve of the second round of comments, Levin suggested that the first round of suggestions submitted by the public and industry on the FCCs grand broadband plan were too much pie in the sky and not enough pie chart on the page. The comments lacked helpful data, analysis of trade-offs and seriousness of purpose, he said. (Multichannel News)
What Do Americans Want? Jul 25, 2009
But it is not a no-brainer for respondents to the Kaiser Family Foundation's poll, as the accompanying pie chart demonstrates. A 45 percent plurality worries more that under health reform, "government agencies would play too big a role in deciding which medical procedures people can or can't get," while a 36 percent minority worries more that under the status quo, "insurance companies play too big a role in deciding what medical procedures people can or can't get." Twelve percent worry about... (Slate)
Board hears pro and con views on wind farm Jul 16, 2009
According to a pie chart included in Wind Force's Powerpoint presentation, the county school system would receive approximately 71 percent of the total property taxes from the project, while the county would receive 29 percent and the state, an almost negligible percentage. The board's share in the first year has been estimated at $326,591. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
Free Microsoft Excel Household Budg... Jul 8, 2009
The person who created the worksheet inserted a pie chart that visually depicts monthly expenses by select budget categories. The categories that appear in this pie chart are ones that may be considered variable and/or discretionary in nature (like a specific car loan or dining out). (Suite101.com)
Mixed race fastest growing May 30, 2009
"We want a part of the pie chart.". The 2008 cens 00004000 us estimates used local records of births and deaths and tax records of people moving within the U.S.. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Multiracial Americans Fastest Growing Demographic Group May 29, 2009
"We want a part of the pie chart.". The 2008 census estimates used local records of births and deaths and tax records of people moving within the U.S. The figures for "white" refer to those whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity. (Fox News)
Alaska permanent fund rebound softened by trustee board's decision May 28, 2009
Every year, the Alaska Permanent Fund's Board of Trustees revisits its investment allocation strategy, which was historically defined as a series of percentages stating relative target values of the permanent fund by investment type - essentially a pie chart with slices for stocks, bonds, real estate, infrastructure, etc ... Historically, the allocation strategy has been defined as a series of percentages stating relative target values of the permanent fund by investment type - essentially a pie... (Juneau Empire)
Kinsley ridicules NEWSWEEKS's 'makeover'...'Blah blah newsmag remake blah blah'... May 24, 2009
A thin line heads east from the second item ("16% 'The Path of a Pandemic'"), turns south, and ends up at a pie chart (38% neutral, 21% positive, 41% critical). A tiny footnote says, "Does not add up to 100 due to letters received on other topics." Oh, I get it, I think. (The Drudge Report)
SAP Simplifies Business Intelligence Deep Dives May 14, 2009
Apotheker then clicked a button to present the data in pie chart form. Customers are pleased. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Why right-brainers will rule this... May 9, 2009
We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions; when your spouse asks, "How was your day?" you don't whip out a PowerPoint presentation and a pie chart. Instead, you narrate: "First, this happened, and you'll never believe what happened after that...," and so on. (CNN -- Law)
Simple akkOmi tool creates charts from IRIS trial balances May 6, 2009
99, akkOmi takes a CSV of a basic, multi-year trial balance from IRIS and creates a simple report pack with charts showing the past three years turnover, a breakdown of cost of sales and profit, plus asset to liabilities ratios, the bank balance and a pie chart showing a breakdown of costs. Version 2 of the program was introduced last month. (Accounting Web, UK)
Suponix.com Introduces BudgetCare Personal Expense Tracking Application for iPhone May 1, 2009
- Choose between diagram or pie chart views with detailed info. - View summary for past months if expense records are available. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
People's misperceptions cloud their understanding of rainy weather forecasts Apr 15, 2009
In addition to using a simplified cloud icon that is shown in many TV and newspaper forecasts, the researchers also used pie charts and bar graphs to indicate the chances of rain ... On the third the pie chart icon appeared beneath the chance of rain. (EurekAlert!)
PeaceWorks, politics and pizza Apr 14, 2009
The group used pizzas to illustrate the pie chart of tax dollars. According to PeaceWorks' statistics, the Iraq War costs American taxpayers $720 million a day. (University News, MO)
Why do Iowans keep putting education last? Apr 11, 2009
fatman2 wrote on Apr 9, 2009 1:09 PM:" Well Dfrank, we disagree on the causes of the recession. I'm going with Greenspan keeping interest rates held artificially low for too many years, which allowed a housing bubble to develop. When underwater homeowners started walking away from their mortgages, this threw the financial burden onto the banks. Banks absorbed huge losses, got frightened and ceased lending. there's more to it than that, but deregulation is much lower on the list of causes,... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
You can find easy money management Apr 10, 2009
"It's just illuminating to a lot of people to see on the pie chart that this is what I spent on travel, food or housing expenses," he said. "They can then see where they can cut back just by having an easy way to see their spending.". (CNN -- Law)
Willis interviewed Apr 7, 2009
On working with Paul Newman, who seriously wanted Willis' opinion on his performance after doing a scene together: "He turned 70 on that film. I thought it was just amazing that this guy would still try, that he would ask me, really, what I thought of the scene ... My little slice of the pie chart has a limited amount of skills. I think I generally fade back to people with a lack of respect for authority...". On the "Die Hard" series: "I think I got one more in me ... The challenge is trying to... (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Poll: Obama Approval Hits New High - 66% Apr 7, 2009
Your comparison pie chart makes no sense CBS. The larger portion of the left pie chart says 36 percent. (CBS News)
Upgrade that computer yourself Apr 5, 2009
Posted on: Saturday, April 4, 2009. Over time, your computer's performance will slow down. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Is Conficker Finally History? Apr 4, 2009
The Vietnamese security company (which offers the pie chart below, of infections by country) says approximately 2. 2 million computers are currently infected with Conficker A and B, and about 1. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Bring an old PC back up to speed Apr 3, 2009
Over time, your computer's performance will slow down. But that doesn't mean you need a new machine. (USA Today -- Tech)
Presenting financial figures with Excel: Part 2 - Charting choices Apr 2, 2009
Pie charts come in for a fair amount of criticism, yet they are probably one of the most frequently used types of chart. The main criticism of a pie chart is the difficulty of judging the values that the slices represent ... I'm not sure I'm wholly convinced that pie charts are never useful. (Accounting Web, UK)
Get most mileage out of that old computer Mar 28, 2009
You ll see a pie chart that shows how full your hard disk is. If only 20 percent or so is free, you can improve performance by clearing some room. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Today Show Continues Trek to Discover Obama's Global Appeal Mar 20, 2009
Another "Political Hotsheet" posting, by Kevin Hechtkopf, was headlined: "Congressional Job Approval at 30 Percent." Hechtkopf did note, with a matching pie chart: "[P]ositive views of Democrats in Congress have not translated into a positive opinion of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Thirty-five percent have an unfavorable view of the California Democrat, while 18 percent have a favorable view. Nearly half of all Americans haven't formed an opinion either way." See. But that post was not on... (MediaResearch.org)
Ubikwiti Provides FREE Personal Expenses Application for Facebook Users Mar 9, 2009
"When accessing the full Personal Expenses application on Ubikwiti servers, the Facebook user lands on an intuitive Homepage that shows Personal Expenses records created within the last five days, plus a breakdown of expenses on a pie chart. Personal Expenses users can view and print all transaction records, filtered by user-specified dates. More than one cash and bank account can be maintained, and transfers between bank accounts can be monitored.". "Although most Facebook Personal Expenses... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
U.S. Has Located $250 Million in Stanford Firm's Assets, FBI Agent Says Mar 1, 2009
In meetings with the Stanford executives, Pendergest-Holt had presented a pie chart that showed $3 billion in assets in a third tier were invested in real estate and another $1. 6 billion was a loan to a Stanford shareholder, according to court papers. (Bloomberg -- US)
ROB Magazine: It's all fun and games Feb 27, 2009
No. They are, says this year's amusingly rendered annual report, "an exclusive club of champions that will make you the envy of all of your friends." (A pie chart illustrates that fact: 46% of non-shareholding friends will feel envy, 24% will register jealousy, 23% will feel hatred and, frighteningly, 7% will express rage. . (Globe and Mail -- Business)
No 'Plan B' should override fail Feb 16, 2009
Referring to a budget pie chart displayed on the meeting room wall, Galo noted that salaries represent 81 percent of the budget and special education costs, 24 percent, and that there is therefore not much room for flexibility. That s not a tasty pie, Dot. (Hingham Journal, MA)
