Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items ...

Pie charts also do badly when there are lots of categories. For example, this chart from a study on data sources used for COVID data visualisation shows hundreds of categories in one pie.

More than half of Americans may have had their social-security numbers exposed in the Equifax Inc. data breach, and that is just the start. Equifax disclosed the shocking data breach a year ago ...

The chart below has data from Unlock MLS showing how many active listings are were in each of the metro’s counties. As of April 2025, there are 13,351 active listings across the Austin metro.