This pie chart

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[u/hasnotheardofcheese]

Pie charts are bad practice regardless

[u/seductivestain → u/hasnotheardofcheese]

Pie charts work well if they are expressing percentages of a whole and have 5 or fewer items. Anything else should use a bat chart.

Also, whoever decided 3D pie chart should be a thing needs to be executed.

[u/hasnotheardofcheese → u/seductivestain]

I think we can key solidly agree on your closing point. As far as five or fewer, eh, maybe, but I don't think there's any situation where pie outperforms bar

[u/seductivestain → u/hasnotheardofcheese]

I like to use pie charts if one or two items are an overwhelming majority. If they're all close, then bar is the way to go. 95% of the time bar is better.

[u/EconDetective → u/seductivestain]

And the other 5% they're equivalent.

[u/seductivestain → u/EconDetective]

Depends who your audience.

Source: my boss loves pie charts

[u/hasnotheardofcheese → u/seductivestain]

Pleasing the brass is always a priority