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Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza
EPISODE 15:聽The Boss has popped into Mission Control to remind us to send him the numbers he needs for his monthly management report.聽聽聽
Once's he's gone the PFY sighs, makes up a set of numbers, appends believable exponents, adds some fancy sounding units to the end and then sends them to through a script file to convert them into something the Boss can use.
None of it matters, as no one cares about the numbers anyway. At Management level there's likely to be more interest in the undigested-meat portion of the Boss' stool sample than our uptime stats, firewall throughput, or the Company's online storage totals...聽
Still, the PFY will fabricate the data, extrude it through a Perl script to create a graphic panel complete with a pie chart or two, and maybe a Venn diagram, then send...
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