Extreme Sports

Today it was nice to get a feel for how to organize data into charts and then manipulate that data. It makes information more user friendly.
Which chart types are most unprofessional for using in publications. Are there any forms that are considered inappropriate? For example, my statistic professor recommended not using pie charts. If money were not an issue, I would love to go either hang gliding or scuba diving. If I were hang gliding, it would preferably be in somewhere tropic. This also applies to scuba diving. It would be more fun if it were warm. Scuba diving would be best along a reef where I could look at different types of coral and other sea life. Someday...