Bar charts can also be used to combine datasets or show how subcategories compare—for example, the number or percentage of votes each candidate for office received broken down by voter age group.

Back in 2012, The Salt surveyed readers on their favorite pies during our Pie Week series. Recently, an Australian reader tells us she pie-charted our results with mouth-watering real pie.

See how UB’s visual vocabulary translates into compelling information graphics through pie, bar and line charts.

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 Chart Maker & Bar Graph Maker online tools Today we will see some of the best online tools for creating different kinds of chart diagrams such as Bar diagrams, Pie charts, line charts, bubble ...

“Imagine a pie chart that shows Visuals at 42 percent, Numbers at 36 percent, Stupid Jokes at 15 percent and Random Complaints at 7 percent. Now let’s convert that to a bar chart.” Philip ...

They are popular because they are popular, which is a circular argument that suits a pie chart. But there are some serious downsides to using the humble pie.

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 ...