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Pie Chart: Vikrant Aggarwal

A pie chart is a circular graphic divided into slices to show numerical proportions, where the slice size corresponds to the quantity. William Playfair created one of the earliest pie charts in 1801. Pie charts are simple visuals that represent fractional data and enable quick comparisons, but they become less effective with too many categories and do not allow comparing multiple data sets or non-adjacent slices easily.

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Pie Chart: Vikrant Aggarwal

A pie chart is a circular graphic divided into slices to show numerical proportions, where the slice size corresponds to the quantity. William Playfair created one of the earliest pie charts in 1801. Pie charts are simple visuals that represent fractional data and enable quick comparisons, but they become less effective with too many categories and do not allow comparing multiple data sets or non-adjacent slices easily.

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Pie Chart

Vikrant Aggarwal
Pie Chart
A pie chart is a circular statistical graphic, which is divided
into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart,
the arc length of each slice is proportional to the quantity it
represents.

The earliest known pie


chart is generally credited
to William Playfair's
Statistical Breviary of 1801
Advantages

• A simple and easy-to-understand picture.


• It represents data visually as a fractional part of a whole,
which can be an effective communication tool for the
even uninformed audience.
• It enables the audience to see a data comparison at a
glance to make an immediate analysis or to understand
information quickly.
Disadvantages
• If too many pieces of data are used, pie chart becomes less
effective.
• You need a series to compare multiple sets as this chart
only represents one data set.
• As the reader has to factor in angles and compare non-
adjacent slices, it has its problems in comparing the data
slices.
• To make decisions based on visual impact rather than data
analysis leads readers to draw inaccurate conclusions

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