The Best Pie Charts Come From Germany

by admin on September 9, 2008

Best Pie Chart Award
(clean and balanced. Your perception may not be great at comparing angles, but who cares?)

 

2th Place
(also nice, but too many slices, and I don’t like the title around the pie)

 

Lateral Pie-Thinking Award
(well, perhaps someone just messed up the template)

 

Designer’s Pie Charts Award
(data? what data?)

 

Seth Godin’s Pie Chart Award
(”makes an obvious point, no nuances“)

 

Consensus Pie Charts: The Venn Pie

 

Consensus Pie Charts: The Line Pie

 

Consensus Pie Charts: The Bar Pie

 

Flash Gordon Pie

 

We Try Harder Award

 

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Fabrice 09.09.08 at 21:06

Definetly,

Germans at good at pie chart ! Loved the “Seth Godin’s Pie Chart Award”
Happy Birthday to your terrific blog.
I hope we can read it for a long time more !

Muito obrigado Jorge.

teylyn 09.09.08 at 21:26

ROTFL — Hilarious! Holden (Australia & New Zealand) have a pie chart with a web 2.0 3D appeal and a picture in the background that obscures the actual data. See here.

Jon Peltier 09.09.08 at 23:15

Here in the US we have this Radar Chart.

Tim 09.10.08 at 2:33

charts + humour = nice work!

Robert Kosara 09.10.08 at 2:57

LOL, well done! Of course, you left out the square pie chart.

Mary Pat Whaley 09.10.08 at 4:08

Hi Jorge,

I was directed here by Liz Strauss as you and I both won on her “That Brand New Blogging Feeling Contest.” I can’t wait to see the slide show this weekend.

I’m intrigued by your site and plan to return and learn some stuff. I recently wrote a post “Grownup Back to School: Make Fall a Time to Reorganize Your Virtual Backpack and Pencilbox” and advised “Learn three things about Excel that you continue to do the long/hard way because you’re too busy to learn the shortcut (yes, I’m talking to myself here.)” I am very guilty of just getting by, and plan to change that soon.

Best wishes,

Mary Pat

Tim Mayes 09.10.08 at 6:06

Very good! You forgot the Olympic Pie.

Chris P 09.10.08 at 15:16

Charming post.

BMW just has strange label placement. B is for Blue, W is for White. The M’s are the tiny line in between–I might have left them out. Steven’s Power law does not seem to cover these…

Ute-S 09.10.08 at 22:00

I love your blog post! (I am from Germany ;-) )

admin 09.11.08 at 1:51

Thanks all for adding those great examples!

@Fabrice: I hope to be here for a long time too… Thanks.
@Mary: I thought “well, these kids must start earning something…” (you’ll see).
@Ute-S: Some of the best information visualization in Europe also comes from Germany. I wonder if there is a link to all those pies…

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