
Friends don't let friends abuse pie charts
by Matt Toback 4 Dec 2015
Pie charts have been a popular feature request for Grafana, both on our GitHub as well as at conferences and customer meetings. We’ll hear things like “We love Grafana, but we need pie charts for the business guys to use it”, usually accompanied by an eye roll or sigh. We agree. Pie charts are terrible, but they have such a bad rap because people constantly use them incorrectly. We find ourselves having long conversations exploring the vice and virtue of the lowly pie chart, and here’s our perspective.
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