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Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: pie chart

  • Pie charts are often criticised. Comparing the size of pie segments can be difficult, and many visualisation experts suggest that bar-charts should be used instead.

How to create your own

Create your own: pie chart

  • Pie charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Map with pie charts by locality

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Male female distribution of unemployment by location.
Average rating: 3.4 (5 votes)

Nightingale graph

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Spider pie graph of deaths by year 1854-1855.
Average rating: 7.3 (6 votes)