January 9th, 2011 at 12:30PM
General consensus by data visualization experts is that pie charts are not very useful at all. In the majority of cases they are misleading, for a number of reasons. We are much better at seeing differences in lengths as opposed to areas. 3D pies, different angles, borders and shadows make the situation worse. More slices to the pie make it even more difficult to understand. Long live Bars. http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/08-21-07.pdf http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00018S&topic_id=1

General consensus by data visualization experts is that pie charts are not very useful at all. In the majority of cases they are misleading, for a number of reasons. We are much better at seeing differences in lengths as opposed to areas. 3D pies, different angles, borders and shadows make the situation worse. More slices to the pie make it even more difficult to understand.

Long live Bars.

http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/08-21-07.pdf

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00018S&topic_id=1

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