Pie charts are used to show percentages of the whole, and Line charts excel with data trends. The remaining chart designs include Area, Stock, Surface, Combo, Pareto, Histogram, and Sunburst.

Pie charts are the Aquaman of data visualization. Aquaman is really only good at one thing. Even so, other DC superheroes can often do Aquaman's job better than Aquaman.

Walter Hickey at Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But in case all those words are bogging you down, we have a helpful, simpler version of his piece to offer. And ...

Pie charts look cooler than other kinds of charts. They're based on pie, after all, and seem less accountant-like than bars, bubbles, and lines. They are, however, often a very wrong way to ...

Arrow charts and slope charts are alternatives to multiple pie charts when the data consist of the values or the ... I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Jun 27, 2012, 06:59am ...

The Graph Makeover Contest makes it clear that there are multiple ways to plot a data set with no one way being best. This post shows alternatives to a pair of donut charts.

Even in charts and graphs, using colors in a common way can go a long way to achieving visual consistency. As noted in the pie chart section, the largest piece of data should always start at the top ...

Bar charts and pie charts are two common ways of representing data, and while they can sometimes be used interchangeably, they don’t make sense for every type of dataset. Here’s how to choose ...