Everyone knows how much I love #Mandiant and the #MTrends report. It's my favorite source. However, this figure demonstrates why pie charts are absolutely worthless as a means of displaying quantitative information, compared to a simple table.

WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE TABLE, tell me what percentage of the initial infection (ugh, they are not "infections") vectors did the Brute Force category occupy?

To answer that question, you have to not be color blind. Then you have to find the appropriate color on the right. Last you find it in the pie chart. What a waste of time!

Now check the table. You're finished in a millisecond.

One other point: the data should have included raw numbers, not just percentages.

Pie charts are a monstrosity. #StopUsingPieCharts #EdwardTufte