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How to Draw the Different Types of Pie Charts

Using the Pie Chart, you can visually estimate the relative contribution that different data categories contribute to a whole value. The pie chart displays the statistics in a visual format. The main use of pie charts to show comparisons. The larger piece of the pie, the more the value of this value compared to the rest. Various applications of pie charts can be found in business and education. For business, pie charts can be used to compare the success or failure of the goods or services. They may also be used to display the business market share.

Percentage Pie Chart. Pie Chart Examples

This sample was created in ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software using the Pie Charts Solution from Graphs and Charts area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. This sample shows the Pie Chart of the approximate air composition. You can see the percentage of oxygen, nitrogen and other gases in the air visualized on this Pie Chart.

Pie Chart Software

Percentage pie chart example. DA determinations

A pie chart is a circular diagram showing a set of data divided into proportional slices. There are several variations of this chart such as donut chart, exploded pie chart, multi-level pie charts. Although it is not very informative when a ring chart or circle chart has many sections, so choosing a low number of data points is quite important for a useful pie chart. ConceptDraw PRO software with Pie Charts solution helps to create pie and donut charts for effective displaying proportions in statistics, business and mass media for composition comparison, i.e. for visualization of part percentage inside one total.

Pie Chart Examples and Templates

A pie chart or a circle graph is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector and consequently its central angle and area, is proportional to the quantity it represents. Pie chart examples and templates created using ConceptDraw PRO software helps you get closer with pie charts and find pie chart examples suite your needs.

Percentage of the top 1% wage earners in the US by occupation

This pie chart sample shows the make up of the top one percent of United States wage earners, grouped by occupation. Data for this graph is sourced from the November 2010 report written by Jon Bakija, Adam Cole, and Bradley T. Heim titled "Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data", column "2005" in table 2, titled "Percentage of primary taxpayers in top one percent of the distribution of income (excluding capital gains) that are in each occupation", on page 50.
This pie chart sample was redesigned from the Wikimedia Commons file: Percentage of the top 1% wage earners in the United States by occupation (pie chart).svg.
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"The distribution of wealth is a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society. It differs from the distribution of income in that it looks at the distribution of ownership of the assets in a society, rather than the current income of members of that society." [Distribution of wealth. Wikipedia]
The pie chart example "Percentage of the top 1% wage earners in the US by occupation" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Pie Charts solutiton of the Graphs and Charts area in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Pie chart

Used Solutions

Graphs and Charts >

Pie Charts

Pie Graph Worksheets

Pie Graph is very popular kind of charts which is widely used in various fields of science and life activities. ConceptDraw PRO extended with Pie Charts Solution from the Graphs and Charts area is the best software for drawing the Pie Graph Worksheets.

Chart Templates

Easy charting software comes with beautiful chart templates and examples. This makes it easy to create professional charts without prior experience.

Pie Charts

Pie Charts are extensively used in statistics and business for explaining data and work results, in mass media for comparison (i.e. to visualize the percentage for the parts of one total), and in many other fields. The Pie Charts solution for ConceptDraw PRO v10 offers powerful drawing tools, varied templates, samples, and a library of vector stencils for simple construction and design of Pie Charts, Donut Chart, and Pie Graph Worksheets.

Design elements - Composition charts and indicators

The vector stencils library "Composition charts" contains 6 templates: 2 pie charts, 2 divided bar charts and 2 double divided bar charts.
The vector stencils library "Composition indicators" contains 6 templates of visual indicators.
Use these design elements to visualize composition comparison of your data in your visual dashboard created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
"A pie chart (or a circle graph) is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector (and consequently its central angle and area), is proportional to the quantity it represents. While it is named for its resemblance to a pie which has been sliced, there are variations on the way it can be presented. ...
An obvious flaw exhibited by pie charts is that they cannot show more than a few values without separating the visual encoding (the “slices”) from the data they represent (typically percentages). When slices become too small, pie charts have to rely on colors, textures or arrows so the reader can understand them. This makes them unsuitable for use with larger amounts of data. Pie charts also take up a larger amount of space on the page compared to the more flexible alternative of bar charts, which do not need to have separate legends, and can also display other values such as averages or targets at the same time. ...
Most subjects have difficulty ordering the slices in the pie chart by size; when the bar chart is used the comparison is much easier. Similarly, comparisons between data sets are easier using the bar chart. However, if the goal is to compare a given category (a slice of the pie) with the total (the whole pie) in a single chart and the multiple is close to 25 or 50 percent, then a pie chart can often be more effective than a bar graph." [Pie chart. Wikipedia]
The example "Design elements - Composition charts and indicators" is included in the Composition Dashboard solution from the area "What is a Dashboard" of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Composition charts and visual indicators

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What is a Dashboard >

Composition Dashboard

Chart Examples

Frequency histogram example - Page load time

Easy charting software comes with beautiful chart templates and examples. This makes it easy to create professional charts without prior experience.

Percentages of the U.S. population by race

This exploded pie chart sample shows the racial make-up of the U.S. in 2000. It was designed on the base of the Wikimedia Commons file: Percentages of the us population by race - 2000.png.
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"The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who reported "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish. Whites constitute the majority of the U.S. population, with a total of about 245,532,000 or 77.7% of the population as of 2013. There are 62.6% Whites when Hispanics who describe themselves as "white" are taken out of the calculation. Despite major changes due to illegal and legal immigration since the 1960s and the higher birth-rates of nonwhites, the overall current majority of American citizens are still white, and English-speaking, though regional differences exist." [Demography of the United States. Wikipedia]
The exploded pie chart example "Percentages of the U.S. population by race" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Pie Charts solutiton of the Graphs and Charts area in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Exploded pie chart

Used Solutions

Graphs and Charts >

Pie Charts

Exploded pie chart - Template

Use this exploded pie chart template in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software to visualize data as percentages of the whole, especially when small values are represented by narrow slices.
"A chart with one or more sectors separated from the rest of the disk is known as an exploded pie chart. This effect is used to either highlight a sector, or to highlight smaller segments of the chart with small proportions." [Pie chart. Wikipedia]
The template "Exploded pie chart" is included in the Pie Charts solution of the Graphs and Charts area in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Circle chart

Used Solutions

Graphs and Charts >

Pie Charts

Percentage Spider Chart

Spider chart sample - Buyer perceptions of the leather footwear industries in Brazil, India and Italy

ConceptDraw PRO creates drawings, diagrams and charts with great visual appeal in Mac OS X. This sample shows the Spider Chart that represents the buyer perceptions of the leather footwear industries in Brazil, India and Italy.

Sector diagram - Template

Use this circle chart template to design your sector diagrams.
"A chart is a graphical representation of data, in which the data is represented by symbols, such as ... slices in a pie chart. ... Charts are often used to ease understanding ... the relationships between parts of the data. ... For example, data that presents percentages in different groups (such as "satisfied, not satisfied, unsure") are often displayed in a pie chart ... A pie chart shows percentage values as a slice of a pie." [Chart. Wikipedia]
The template "Sector diagram" for the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software is included in the Pie Charts solution of the Graphs and Charts area in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Circle chart

Used Solutions

Graphs and Charts >

Pie Charts

Pie charts - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Pie charts" contains 30 templates of pie and donut (doughnut, ring) charts for visualizing percentage for parts of one total, or compare parts of few totals.
Drag a template from the library into your document and enter your data.
Use these shapes to draw your pie charts and donut charts in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The vector stencils library "Pie charts" is included in the Pie Charts solution of the Graphs and Charts area in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Pie chart (table)