Avoid pie
7/13/09 / David Kennedy
… charts, that is.
We’ve had some “debates” here at the office about the best types of graphs, charts, or other visual means of portraying data (Word clouds anyone?). We even had a few posts (here and here) last year when we disagreed with Seth Godin’s three laws of graphs.
I was amused when I saw this post from the Future Place Blog about pie charts. We agree that, except for the simplest of data, pie charts are usually a bad idea.
Perhaps the movement is growing!