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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, and ...

A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.

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 illustrate the greatest stream of income in relation ...

Editor’s Note: We’ve been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,’ we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

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, boring ...

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 sticks ...