Chocolate Pie Chart

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my arguments against pie charts. However, I have finally found a legitimate use for pie charts - homemade chocolate! A company called Chocolate Editions has been reviewed in Wallpaper magazine for creating a chocolate pie chart. The result is 70% dark, 20% milk and 10% white chocolate. The percentages are reflected in the shape of the pie chart.

Doughnut pie chart madness

The Sydney Morning Herald ran an article on Australian eating habits on 30 July 2011. In an act of pie chart madness they felt the need to use the following pie chart:

Compounding the problem they used a terrible chequer board background.

Pie Chart fun

Here is an example of using pie charts for fun.

Label your Axes

Good practice for creating graphs is to label the x and y axes (and any other dimensions). Without good labels the reader is left guessing the meaning of your graph. A comical version of this is provided by GraphJam who provide the following: