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 ...

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.

Pie charts are very easy to abuse. A pie chart is not the right chart to use if you need to label each percent. Business Insider, data from City of Detroit ...

Select one of the pie chart types in the right pane and click "OK" to insert it into the Word document. Fill the Excel spreadsheet that opens with the data you want to represent in your pie chart ...

Arrow charts and slope charts are alternatives to multiple pie charts when the data consist of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods.

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 ...