Last week via our Twitter account, @NPRFood, we learned that an enterprising Australian baker with a taste for data visualization had gone looking for hard data to make an edible pie chart.

A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts. Edward Tufte said, “the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them.” We present several alternatives to the pair ...

Figure 1 shows the chart with the labels cropped out. The wedges of a pie chart add to 100%. Please estimate the percentage of each wedge without the help of labels. Also, please list the wedges ...

Martha Stewart/Instagram According to Stewart's "Thanksgiving 2024 Pie Pie Chart," which featured prominently in one of the photos in the carousel, 14 of the pies were Pecan Chocolate, five were ...

Pie charts are a great way to present numerical data because they make comparing the magnitude of various numbers quick and easy, while also making the larger data set appreciable at a glance.