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This is not a "visualization".

It would be far better to do line plots of each browser's market share as a function of time, distinguishing different browsers by color.

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Agreed - a bunch of pie charts (not great communicating info at the best of times) could hardly be called a "visualization" in the modern sense of creating a graphic that makes data easily understandable, visually appealing & useful

Half-agreed. A stacked area chart would be perfect for this.

I would take pretty much anything with a temporal axis over these pie-charts. Also I would favor stacked bars with optional trend lines over area charts in the case of countable annual data like this.

After which amount of data points is it considered recommended to switch to interpolated line/area charts?

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