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Edward Tufte and Howard Wainer both recommend bar- or pointcharts for the tasks other people would use piecharts for. -- http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~brei

• dchest 17y ago
  But with pie charts it's easier to cheat http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/02/macworlds-iphon/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/02/macworlds-iphon/ :) Thanks for the link! I noticed that it was harder for me to memorize information from pie charts, but didn't know why.
• tom_b 17y ago
  I would also recommend checking out Stephen Few's books (Information Dashboard Design and/or Show Me the Numbers) for quick and useful guidelines on visually communicating data. Few is a big advocate of Tufte's work and books, and he has a nice set of good vs bad practices in Information Dashboard Design. I've been an evangelist for Few's books and practices as a "best" starting place for those of us less naturally gifted at data visualization (especially for simpler data or business purposes). He has heavily influenced how I look at typical IT charts and graphs.
• scorpion032 17y ago
  Still, any of those are far better than Log charts: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/26051202.jpg http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/2605120...