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Beyond the Pie Chart: When to Use a Bar Chart or Line Chart

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Below we share tips from our white papers, Visual Analysis Best Practices and Which Chart or Graph Is Right for You , to explain when to use a line chart or bar chart. Use Bar Charts for Comparison and Ranking. Another method for analyzing data is comparison and ranking. Explore Tableau.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches. Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re Michelle Murrain, NTEN board member and NOSI leader - and author of Nonprofit API white paper has insightful analysis.

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Nonprofits and Libraries: It's Time to Move Beyond the Pie Chart

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Tableau's handy white paper on Visual Analysis Best Practices explains why they're often not the best choice: "We suggest avoiding them for two reasons: 1) The human visual system is not very good at estimating area, and 2) You can only compare slices that are right next to each other. But what about bar charts?

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