The problem remains that any graphic that requires one to judge areas will be less accurately interpreted than one which is based on length. At least as Sam points out, a pie chart shows you exactly the area of each wedge, though you can't count on the chartsman being honest and including all 100% of the total, as I discussed in Pie Chart Plotting Deficiency. The concentric circles and polygons also suffer from this uncertainty. I still never know if the data for each circle is represented by the entire area of the circle or just the area that is the color of the circle. I find the bottom aligned bubbles interesting. Okay Fabrice, I was going to let it go for now. It is similarly unclear what 100% would look like, something important to consider when showing a dataset larger than three items (a pie chart shows this perfectly with a tag cloud it is impossible to combine the text into one blob that shows a total). With a font of varying pitch (unless maybe you use Courier or similar), the scale is unsuitable for showing the proportional relationship between the labels unless the plain numbers are used, as in your example. I'd also discourage the use of tag clouds to represent proportions, and limit their use to tags in blogs and other text-heavy websites, where their primary use is to draw attention to the most frequently read/searched text strings. Ditto radar charts when there are used in a similar way. Without seeing the numbers, it is unclear whether the inner circles represent segments of the large circle (the large circle representing 100%, segmented like a Euler diagram) or the smaller circles are stacked on top of the large circle (with the combined total being 100%). I've always had a problem with concentric circles, a trend that seems to be increasing in news media.
What is your favorite Pie chart alternative?Īlso check out, 14 different ways to present same dataīottom-aligned bubbles look great, and can give a decent idea of scale comparable to a regular pie - something high on my list when representing data meaningfully and honestly. Here is a tutorial for Excel tag cloud visualization.Īdded later: All these charts are effective for fewer values (<6) and with data labels. They are very easy to do (either manually or automated) in Excel. Tag clouds are a famous visualization technique. They are easy to develop using conditional formatting. Square pies are a simpler alternative to pie charts.
#Create pie chart in excel 2016 manual#
For smaller set of values, the manual job is worth the effect.Ī simple alternative to manual job is to use Many Eye’s tree map tool Unfortunately making the same in excel is a bit of manual job (or VBA). Using a non-hierarchical tree map to replace pie charts is a good idea. Of course, the simplest and most elegant of them all, a stacked bar chart. Simply copy paste the pie chart values in to few more columns (you are seeing the result of 8 columns) and fire up a radar chart with area. Using Excel Radar Chart, you can make a cool alternative to pie chart. For this we can use bubble chart with axis adjustments so that bottom half of the bubbles is cropped. Using slices instead of pies is another simple and intuitive visualization trick. Just make all the X and Y co-ordinates as same. Change the X and Y co-ordinates to align the bubbles at bottom.Ĭoncentric circles can be a good alternative to pie chart and they are very easy to do using excel’s built in bubble chart. Convert the pie values in to a bubble chart. You can do them by using Excel’s bubble chart. Here we will see 9 creative ways to alter your pie charts so that they can start a conversation.īottom aligned bubbles are a new fad in visualization. Well, you don’t really want them to like your charts, you want them to like your insights, your ideas.īut, to get there, you need to shake up your audience, so that they take notice of what your charts are saying.Ī simple trick for achieving this is showing charts in different formats (while retaining the meaning). You thought your audience are going to love it.īut your pie charts failed to evoke any response. You have included several pie charts since they are easy to digest. You have analyzed the data so well to arrive at some really amazing conclusions. You have made an impressive presentation with lots of data and charts.
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