The only point of the pie chart to the right is to inform people what 32 out of 100 looks like. Last week I made the comment that pie charts are the Nickelback of data visualization.

Pie charts are used to show percentages of the whole, and Line charts excel with data trends. The remaining chart designs include Area, Stock, Surface, Combo, Pareto, Histogram, and Sunburst.

Figure 2. Arrow chart used as an alternative to the multiple pie charts. The base of the arrow is the 2002 budget and the arrowhead points to the 2003 budget.

In case you select data across more than 2 columns while using the 2-D pie chart, the chart will ignore entries beyond the first 2 columns. Similar is the case for a hierarchical sunburst chart.

Excel 1. Open Microsoft Excel on your PC or Mac. 2. Open the document containing the data that you'd like to make a pie chart with. Click and drag to highlight all of the cells in the row or ...

Pie charts also do badly when there are lots of categories. For example, this chart from a study on data sources used for COVID data visualisation shows hundreds of categories in one pie.

As she writes on her blog, she had to adjust our survey data a bit to make it work. Our readers' favorite pie was "other" — perhaps coconut, peach or some other regional pie? — and she wisely ...

Click "Insert" from Excel's ribbon. Click "Pie" from the "Charts" group to open a new pane of options. Click the first option in the "2D pie" section.

First, open the Spotify Pie web page on your phone or on desktop. Click “Login to Spotify” and sign in with the account you want to create a pie chart for.