I was just asked to fudge the numbers

This particular project is for client-facing stakeholders. My team lead and I are tasked with automating several of their data-driven slides on Tableau that they currently manually produce not sure how or where.

One particular slide is a pie chart (yeah, I know) that splits the data into ~10 different segments or so, each with its % of market share.

We did so, and they complained that the numbers percentage points add up to 98%.

We explained that it's because …

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