Pie Charts – how not to use them!
I originally posted this to my LinkedIn Profile, which you can find here, but thought I’d share it on here as well!
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Plenty has been said before about whether or not you should use Pie Charts to present your data.
A good article covering their main pitfalls can be found here;
and a slightly lighter take on them can be found here;
Yet, it was my own father who reminded me that Pie Charts can be put to good use, as was the case with Florence Nightingale. (Though, they were of the somewhat more useful Rose Diagram type than bog standard Pie chart, but I take the point!)
Having said that, I came across this little gem, on the BBC news website of all places, which really must be the single worst usage of Pie Charts I’ve ever come across
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