{"id":484,"date":"2017-01-29T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=484"},"modified":"2017-01-29T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T06:20:54","slug":"countdown-of-top-10-reasons-to-never-ever-use-a-pie-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/01\/29\/countdown-of-top-10-reasons-to-never-ever-use-a-pie-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown of Top 10 Reasons to Never Ever Use a Pie Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Oracle blog listed 10 reasons that why we should get rid of using pie chart.<\/p>\n

Number 10 – Pie Charts Just Don’t Work When Comparing Data<\/p>\n

Number 9 – You Have A Better Option: The Sorted Horizontal Bar Chart<\/p>\n

Number 8 – The Pie Chart is Always Round<\/p>\n

Number 7 – Some Genius Will Make It 3D<\/p>\n

Number 6 – Legends and Labels are Hard to Align and Read<\/p>\n

Number 5 – Nobody Has Ever Made a Critical Decision Using a Pie Chart<\/p>\n

Number 4 – It Doesn’t Scale Well to More Than 2 Items<\/p>\n

Number 3 – A Pie Chart Causes Distortions and Errors<\/p>\n

Number 2 – Everyone Else Uses Them: Debunking the “Urban Legend” of Pie Charts<\/p>\n

Number 1 – Pie Charts Make You Look Stupid and Lazy<\/p>\n

Here’s an example which shows how bad the pie chart in visualization. First, the pie chart did not display information in an elegant visual form with some numbers placed inside the pie while others placed outside. Second, it’s hard to catch the point of what the visualization wanted to express because we have\u00a0to take time to check\u00a0all the numbers and scan the legend to say that the biggest section is media and the smallest section is electricity. Also, people may be confused with the close colors as such as those light blues. Therefore, this is an inefficient visualization.<\/p>\n

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Reference:\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/experience\/entry\/countdown_of_top_10_reasons_to_never_ever_use_a_pie_chart<\/em><\/p>\n

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