Pie charts
Pie and Donut Charts are mostly created to show the contributions of different values to a total amount. They are easy to read on charts. Donut charts work best to compare a particular section to the whole rather than comparing individual sections with each other though both show a relation of part to whole.
When to use pie charts
- Whenever the user needs to show approximate values in relation to other values.
- Mostly used in business and statistics. It’s good for showing the relationship between individual proportions to the whole data.
- It’s simply used for visualizing the percentage of the part to the whole total unit.
- Pie charts are commonly used in business presentations like sales, operations, survey results, resources, etc as they provide a quick summary.
Common examples
1. Total sales amount split by item (percentage contribution of each item)
2. Total sales amount split by brands of different items.
Features of the pie chart
- Drill down for details by double-clicking a slice.
- Pie charts can have sub-slices within a larger pie chart or slice.
- You can cross filter a chart with another chart. Suppose you click any bar or column in a chart, that particular area of pie chart will get highlighted and rest of the pie is grayed or faded.
Let us start understanding and creating those charts in a very simple way.
Pre-requisite: You can refer to Power BI interactive dashboards for easy implementation of the following charts.
Power BI – Create Pie and Donut Charts
In this article, we will learn to create Pie and Donut Charts using Power BI.