Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Pie Charts: "Defeat in Circular Form"

Building decision support systems nearly always involves the visual presentation of information, so knowing what works and what doesn't from a data visualisation perspective is important.

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in passing that pie charts are bad, mmkay? Here's a post from the excellent blog of business intelligence consultancy Juice Analytics describing some of the reasons why pie charts suck hard.

Also see this, this and this (all via the boys at Juice).

1 comment:

  1. Pretty sure that graph was on the door of an office in building 26 last year.

    This is my favourite pie chart by far.

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