2. The Pie of Pie and Bar of Pie displays charts with smaller sections—of another pie or stacked bar chart—extracted from the whole, again, for emphasis. 3. The Doughnut charts also combine ...

Richard Heiberger suggested the diverging stacked bar chart of Figure 4 ... too much information is lost in Figure 7. The little pie charts are difficult to read and we’ve lost the dominance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage ...

The key here isn’t just data as part of a whole (which can more effectively be displayed as a pie chart). It adds another important factor: Time. The X value on a stacked bar chat (usually ...

Pie charts show percentages as a circle, divided into segments. A pie chart could be used to show how students travel to school. Each piece of data is shown as a proportion of 360, because there ...