There are some good arguments both in this thread and in your blog, and both for and against the two types of charts. One thing that you would have to make abs

There are some good arguments both in this thread and in your blog, and both for and against the two types of charts. One thing that you would have to make absolutely clear to your audience when using the "sausage" chart [1] is that the length represents a whole. Pie charts obviously represent no less and no more than one whole, but that's not so obvious with a bar. You handle this well in your examples by marking the end point with "100%", but I worry that others would not be as diligent in their labeling if these charts were to take off. 1. Is there really no better name for that? :D How about calling them snake charts or something?