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  1. jim

    Pie charts – just don’t (unless you actually want to have a pretty picture to fill up the Board’s monthly PowerPoint presentation – in which case, I’d recommend the exploded 3d doughnut version with gradient fill)
    and, as you’ve demonstrated, less is more (2 colours, 1 font, everything should be there for a reason – no superfluous data, formatting or text)
    “everything” includes the white space – which is sometimes the most important thing

  2. KV

    Very nice tips Mynda! Thank you.

    I was about to write a comment that the stacked bar chart seems to be a not-so-good choice to convey the category-wise 3 years’ sales figures!
    Then I thought that it’s quite unlike you to make such an elementary mistake… ha ha!

    So I re-read the post and realised that you were improving the chart presentation with each tip as you went down the list of tips. 🙂

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