The Problem with Pie Charts

Sunday January 14th 2007, 6:18 pm

Written by: Brian Benzinger

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Juice Analytics has an interesting article on pie charts and how they can sometimes break the basic rules of data visualization. There are some interesting points worth noting. I’ve personally always been a fan of line graphs and bar graphs, though pie charts have there times.

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# 1. Alojamento on Sep 12, 2007 at 2:38 am

Pie charts are good for budget shares.

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