When to use a pie chart Pie charts, on the other hand, show categories as a proportion of a whole. You can think of the circle as the total—100%—and the width of each slice is determined by ...

To experience the breadth of Excel’s data visualization offerings, let’s take a tour of some of the most useful charts, starting with the basic ones and moving to the more advanced. To follow along, ...

If you’ve got only two or three slices of the pie, and all those slices are very different, then you don’t have much of a problem. But that’s not the case with most pie charts. All too often ...

When it comes to visualizing data, there is no shortage of charts and graphs to choose from. From traditional graphs to innovative hand-coded visualizations, there is a continuum of visualizations ...

Another good example of a useful pie chart comes from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is trying to show that we don’t have an “entitlement society” in which able-bodied ...