Data is everywhere, today. We cannot imagine a world without bar graphs or pie charts anymore -- they have become integral to presenting information. From billion-dollar companies to small businesses, ...

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 often used to show percentages of a whole. However, Professor Adrian Barnett, a statistician at the Queensland University of Technology, and researcher Victor Ogwoma argue that ``pie ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age’s lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of “graphical statistics,” aka data ...

Pie charts are a way to show data. Pie charts show proportions of a whole. The circle of the pie chart represents the whole. That's a full 360 degrees. Each part, or slice, represents part of the ...