There are six formatting mistakes that I commonly see in pie charts “in the wild.” This article discusses how to recognize and avoid those formatting mistakes in your own pie charts.
Read moreYou should probably be using “step charts” a lot more often.
If you haven’t been using step charts, there’s a good chance that you’ve been misrepresenting at least some of your data to your audience. That’s why I suggest that, if you can, try to start using step charts whenever you need to show irregular, persistent time series values, and start getting your audiences used to seeing this chart type.
Don’t know what a step chart is? Read this post!
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