Remember Pie Week? That series of stories, produced with our friends over at Morning Edition in July 2012, was a hit here on The Salt. Well, thanks to the wonders of Internet search, we have an excuse ...

Microsoft Excel's chart feature makes it pretty simple to "get your piece of the pie" into a spreadsheet, but once you've added that visual, it may seem like you're stuck. Whether you need additional ...

What an outstanding group of readers I have! Both the quality and the quantity of entries to the Graph Makeover Contest were amazing. There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which ...

Pie charts are drawn as a circle representing all the data given. The 360 degrees about the centre of the circle is divided up according to the proportions of the different quantities shown. The ...

Edward Tufte hates pie charts. Edward Tufte is also the only chart theorist normal people have ever heard of. And so yesterday the Internet was gripped with anti-pie fervor. My friend Tom Lee sticks ...