To display a record of information in a graphical interface, pie charts, bar diagrams, and other such chart diagrams are the best ways to present or communicate information visually. If you don’t have ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a jumble of numbers, wishing they could magically transform into a clean, professional-looking chart? Whether you’re preparing for a big presentation, ...

To draw a pie chart, we need to represent each part of the data as a proportion of 360, because there are \(360^{\circ}\) in a circle. For example, if 55 out of 270 vehicles are vans, we will ...

Pie charts are a way to show data. Pie charts show proportions of a whole. The circle of the pie chart represents the whole. That's a full 360 degrees. Each part, or slice, represents part of the ...

Excel displays percentages of a whole using pie charts, also known as wedge charts of circle graphs. Businesses tend to rely on such charts. The diagrams appear cluttered when graphing many items, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “There is no such thing as an innocent map,” observes Philippe Rekacewicz in his catalogue essay that ...

Mermaid, the open source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language. As is often the case, Mermaid founder ...

Remember Pie Week? That series of stories, produced with our friends over at Morning Edition in July 2012, was a hit here on The Salt. Well, thanks to the wonders of Internet search, we have an excuse ...

Unless you’re a data scientist or have another job that commonly uses data visualization, selecting the right way to represent information can feel overwhelming. Software like Excel can stuff any type ...