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See how UB’s visual vocabulary translates into compelling information graphics through pie, bar and line charts.
Excel displays percentages of a whole using pie charts, also known as wedge charts of circle graphs. Businesses tend to rely on such charts. The diagrams appear cluttered when graphing many items ...
The Circle Graph and Pie Chart No one really knows how Playfair dreamt up the pie chart. Some wonder whether it’d always been around—and if Playfair was just the first to actually publish one.
Arrow charts and slope charts are alternatives to multiple pie charts when the data consist of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods.
The Graph Makeover Contest makes it clear that there are multiple ways to plot a data set with no one way being best. This post shows alternatives to a pair of donut charts.
How to Insert a Pointer in an Excel Pie Chart. A pie chart graphically displays a proportional relationship to some total. As an example, you might have a list of business revenues and wish to ...
The pie chart got its name honestly: It’s shaped like a pie and carved into pieces like slices. But where its namesake generally contains gooey sweetness, pie graphs are filled with chalky ...
Edward Tufte hates pie charts. Edward Tufte is also the only chart theorist normal people have ever heard of. And so yesterday the Internet was gripped with anti-pie fervor. My friend Tom Lee ...
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