Remember Pie Week? That series of stories, produced with our friends over at Morning Edition in July 2012, was a hit here on The Salt. Well, thanks to the wonders of Internet search, we have an excuse ...

Edward Tufte hates pie charts. Edward Tufte is also the only chart theorist normal people have ever heard of. And so yesterday the Internet was gripped with anti-pie fervor. My friend Tom Lee sticks ...

The pie chart is easily the worst way to convey information ever developed in the history of data visualization. Sure, there are other more cumbersome ways to articulate data. But none have the ...