Political orientation (summary)

I have difficulty in immediately grasping what views a person holds when they tell me their political orientation, e.g. that they are Convervative or Socialist. I found the following short list on a LW survey and I liked the concise descriptions associated with them:

• Libertarian, for example like the US Libertarian Party: socially permissive, minimal/no taxes, minimal/no distribution of wealth
• Conservative, for example the US Republican Party and UK Tories: traditional values, low taxes, low redistribution of wealth
• Liberal, for example the US Democratic Party or the UK Labour Party: socially permissive, more taxes, more redistribution of wealth
• Socialist, for example Scandinavian countries: socially permissive, high taxes, major redistribution of wealth
• Communist, for example the old Soviet Union: complete state control of many facets of life

Hide overflowing labels on pie charts

I have seen many questions related to occlusion of labels on pie charts and have always suggested that the problem should be solved by moving the labels outside the pie chart, or by rotating them to align with the axis.

The solutions I have suggested often is to rotate the label but it has never quite satisfied me. Part of it was the horrible font rendering done by some browsers and loss in legibility that brings and the weird flip when one label crosses over the 180° line. In some cases, the results were acceptable and unavoidable, e.g. when the labels were too long but in most cases, they looked just clumsy.

I would consider using a different form of visualization for the data usually, but out of curiosity, I thought that I should try to see how difficult is it to actually do it.

The results are on this Plunker.