Misleading Bad Data Visualization Examples. Pie charts are a bad way to show information. On a positive note cairo said the growing number of free and low cost data visualization tools like datawrapper and flourish has made doing high quality data based stories accessible to even the smallest of newsrooms.
Insightful graphs and charts include very basic but essential grouping of elements. The only worse design than a pie chart is several of them for then the viewer is asked to compare quantities located in spa. Pie charts are a bad way to show information.
A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart.
Fifty stacked pie charts in a row are even worse. Fifty stacked pie charts in a row are even worse. I hate to name and shame but seriously if you re going to tout infographic production as a core offering you need to understand the basic principles of data visualization. Take a look at the graph above comparing people with jobs to people on welfare.
