Effectiveness of Chart Design

Edward Tufte has long hated pie-charts, for both their aesthetic failings and misleading representations of visual data.  Neal Levene backs up the argument with a new post on Simple Complexity that quite simply shows that Pie Charts are just plain harder to deal with than their counterparts.

Can you rank the size of the wedges from largest to smallest? Take a second to write down your answer. (We will reveal the answer later in the article.) When you are finished, click to the next page of this post.

via Effectiveness of Chart Design — InnovaTech, Inc.’s Simple Complexity.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .