The "point" of a pie chart is to show the relationship of parts out of a whole. Let's see how bad they are at the one thing they're ostensibly designed to do. Take a look at these three pie charts.

There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which consisted of presenting alternatives to a pie ... bar chart showing the streaming nature of the data. In addition, there were three ...

Today, we update one of our favorite charts ... each part of the market structure pies use to attract customers. You could say the U.S. equity market is really more like three interconnected ...

The bigger the slice, the larger the part it represents. The whole pie chart represents 100% of something ... because it has the smallest angle. Play 3 has the most children in it because it ...

The Guardian is outraged by a pie chart (Photo taken by Engadget) used by Steve Jobs at MacWorld to illustrate the iPhone's marketshare, calling him the "king of snake oil salesman" due to its ...

The bigger the slice, the larger the part it represents. The whole pie chart represents 100% of something ... because it has the smallest angle. Play 3 has the most children in it because it ...