One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

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 ...

A pie chart can show collected data in sectors. Each sector can be labelled, or can be colour coded with a key. When drawing a pie chart, a protractor will be used to draw the angles accurately. Being ...

JavaFX provides certain colors by default when rendering charts. There are situations, however, when one wants to customize these colors. In this blog post I look at changing the colors of a JavaFX ...

I have a confession. I never actually considered the origin of graphs or pie charts. It never occurred to me that they had any history at all, I probably assumed they were as old as mathematics. In ...

Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items sold ...

The pie chart is easily the worst way to convey information ever developed in the history of data visualization. Sure, there are other more cumbersome ways to articulate data. But none have the ...