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Pi Day, the quirky math holiday, nay, the cultural phenomenon<\/em> arrives once a year on March 14. Mathematicians celebrate the beautiful oddity of a number with a seemingly infinite number of numbers. The general public eats pie. And marketers have their own pie to consider: Pie charts.<\/p>\n

However, while mathematicians agree on the beauty of pi, and the general public agrees on the deliciousness of pie, marketers and data visualizers do not agree on the effectiveness of pie charts.<\/p>\n

What makes this humble, out-of-the-box data visualization that we all learned about in elementary school such a divisive chart? Regardless of how you recently celebrated Pi Day, in this post we’ll honor the holiday by exploring the benefits and shortfalls of pie charts, using the most appropriate set of data to illustrate examples: favorite pie flavors.<\/p>\n

Benefits and Shortfalls of Pie Charts<\/h2>\n
Despite the ease of creating a pie chart, they’re often not very effective at communicating data. As a rule of thumb, when you design a pie chart, keep this in mind: how easy is it to understand what the top three results are?<\/p>\n
Benefits<\/h3>\n
Two benefits of pie charts are that they are relatively universal and that people understand the concept. You don’t need to explain to your audience how the chart should be read. They also understand that the chart should communicate that all pieces of the whole should add up to 100%.<\/p>\n
Others claim that they are useful for comparing angles rather than area<\/a>, and that when faced with a side-by-side comparison about expectation versus the result, it’s easy to see when a pie chart slice is greater than 25% or 50%.<\/p>\n
Shortfalls<\/h3>\n
Several elements make this out-of-the-box pie chart difficult to comprehend.<\/p>\n