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.

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.

Here are some alternatives to pie charts that sound just as tasty, but are easier to digest. Bar charts. Bar charts summarise data across different categories, but present them next to each other.

What’s a good alternative to pie charts? There’s a simple fix that can effectively summarise big data in a small space and still allow creative colour schemes. It’s the humble bar chart.

The one single thing pie charts are good at is when you're comparing 2-3 different data points with very different amounts of information. That's it. And when you get down to it, ...

Pie charts also work well for displaying discrete data, as all the values combined equal 100 percent of the total. Because of this, pie charts are also a good way to display your values as ...

EmbedVideo(1266, 482, 304); Editor's Note: We've been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,' we used a trio of pie charts broken down into ...