Types of Pie charts

There are so many different types of Pie and Donut charts. Some of them are as follows, We will will implementing a very few basic pie and donut charts using Power BI to get the basic hang of its implementations using the tool.

  • Exploded pie chart: Pie charts with exploded pie helps in showing a focused part or give emphasis to a slice for some particular information.

  • Half pie chart: Half pie charts are semi circles which are used to totally focus on visualizing one or more percentages adding upto 100%. It works like a normal pie chart.

  • Nested pie chart: Nested pie charts are used to represent hierarchical data with multiple levels of categories and subcategories. It helps in showing the proportion of each subcategory with repect to the parent category. It helps to compare the distribution of subcategories across different categories.

3D pie chart: It is a type of graphical representation of data which is more appealing to users. It shows slices with relative sizes of data .

Power BI – Create Pie and Donut Charts

In this article, we will learn to create Pie and Donut Charts using Power BI.

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Difference between Pie and Donut charts

Similar to a pie chart, a doughnut chart also shows the relationship of parts to a whole, but a doughnut chart can contain multiple data series unlike pie charts Each data series in a doughnut chart adds a ring to the chart. The center may hold the first data series. Donut charts have a better visual appeal and data intensity ratio....

Types of Pie charts

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Dataset

The dataset used is “SalesData.xlsx“. Upload the dataset in Power BI and refer to the dataset to follow along with the below-given sections of the article....

Pie Chart in Power BI

Drag the Pie chart icon from the “Visualizations” pane to the Report view Canvas of Power BI desktop. The initial pie chart in the canvas looks like the following....

Donut Charts

Donut charts are very similar to pie charts other than the data displayed in rings , where the ring represents a data series....

Types of Donut charts

Some Donut chart examples are given below...

Example

The similar steps of pie chart to be followed for the implementation with little change. Initially drag the donut chart icon from the “Visualizations” pane to report pane....

Limitations

Due to circular nature, doughnut charts are not easy to read, especially when they display multiple data series. Avoid small slices out of so many categories which is difficult to read analyze. Data points on outer rings may appear larger than data points on inner rings while their actual values may be smaller. Displaying values or percentages in data labels is very useful in a doughnut chart, but if you want to compare the data points side by side, you should use a stacked column or stacked bar chart instead....