Do you share the images you take online?

One of my favorite photography blogs is Digital Photography School. Just today they published the results of one of their polls.

So I'm thinking, okay, this is a photography website, surely they can present the data in an effective manner, but NOOOOOO. They succumbed to the dreaded pie chart.

Question 1: Do you share you images online? Yes or No?

Their results:


The simple, more effective way:


Question 2: Expanding on question 1, but how often do you share pictures online?

Their results:


I challenge you: what ranks #1? Took you a while huh?

Not only is a pie chart purely a bad choice, but their presentation doesn't even put the data in any sort of logical order. And, the color choices are terrible.

My take:


I challenge you again: what ranks #1? Took you about 1 second, right?

I'm so, so disappointed that even one of the most popular photography blogs can't get it right. What is this world coming to?

The Earth is a Giant Pie

Check this out:



It's frightening that someone would publish a sphere-like pie chart; this was a new approach to me and possibly the worst yet. Come on, at least put the data in order. The KISS method is so much better:

A simple bar chart based on the data table would look like:



What are the top 5 categories? Takes you a while to figure it out, doesn't it? The most effective way to display this data to communicate the message is:



Why overcomplicate things when simple is clearly the best approach?