They are popular because they are popular, which is a circular argument that suits a pie chart. But there are some serious downsides to using the humble pie.

Arrow charts and slope charts are alternatives to multiple pie charts when the data consist of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods.

Back in 2012, The Salt surveyed readers on their favorite pies during our Pie Week series. Recently, an Australian reader tells us she pie-charted our results with mouth-watering real pie.

The pie chart is headlined, "Look closely at this chart of federal spending." It says spending on the "military" accounts for 57 percent of the federal dollar, with other categories ranging from 1 ...

How to create your own Spotify Pie If you’ve seen other Spotify listeners sharing their Spotify Pies on social media and want to try it for yourself, here’s how: First, open the Spotify Pie ...

Spotify Pie lets you create a personalized music genre pie chart based on your Spotify listening habits.

Spotify users are flocking to make a pie chart of their most-listened to artists (Picture: Spotify Pie chart/Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty) A yearly highlight for Spotify users is the music ...