Pie Charts Applications

What type of variable is used for?

The pie chart is used to represent qualitative or categorical variables, preferably nominal.

Pie charts should not be used to show relationships between categories. It is easier to
make comparisons with bar graphs. Nor should they be used to show more than five
categories

What is the pie diagram used for?

It is used to show the proportion corresponds to each category.

Uses of a Pie Chart

The main use of a pie chart is to show comparison. When items are presented on a pie
chart, you can easily see which item is the most popular and which is the least popular.
Various applications of pie charts can be found in business, school, and at home. For
business, pie charts can be used to show the success or failure of certain products or
services. They can also be used to show market reach of a business compared to similar
businesses.
At school, pie chart applications include showing how much time is allotted to each
subject. It can also be used to show the number of girls to boys in various classes. At
home, pie charts can be useful when figuring out your diet. You can also use pie charts
to see how much money you spend in different areas.

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There are many applications of pie charts and all are designed to help you to easily grasp
a bunch of information visually.
How many data series do you need for your data?
A pie chart only really works well when you only have one set of data.

Are you using any negative values?

If this is the case then you should stay clear of a pie chart as each segment is equal to its
value then when totalled equal to the whole, so using negative values can be rather
confusing.

What values are you using?

Useful for displaying data that is classified into nominal or ordinal categories.
Generally used to show percentage or proportional data.
Try not use any zero values, as they cannot be represented.

How many categories?

It is best practice to never have any more than 7 categories as it becomes harder for the
eye to distinguish relativity of size between each section.

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Why use Pie Charts in Business Applications

Pie Charts can be used to display a wide variety of information. When data is represented
in the form of a pie chart the human eye finds it very easy to compare the data and quickly
draw conclusions. In short they are a great visual aid and will add a touch of
professionalism to any application or web page which requires the display of data.

Add powerful Pie Chart reporting features to your Web / Intranet pages and
applications.

The Advanced Pie Chart software makes it easy to quickly add impressive and dynamic
graphing capabilities to business applications and web pages.

Why Show Data in Pie Chart Format ?

Tables of data are well and good but the human eye prefers pictures. By representing
data graphically the viewer can take in a large amount of information in a very short period
of time. With a graph any trend within the data becomes easy to spot. Similarly if any of
the data is lower or higher than the norm then this too is immediately obvious to the
viewer. Both of these are particularly important where the graph is representing some sort
of performance data.

A good graphical display is pleasing to the eye and therefore can have the effect of
impressing the viewer and encourage them to read more of a page or site. As such a
professional looking graph has a positive knock on effect for the rest of a site.

Making Pie Charts Easy

Typically adding charting functionality to a web pages involves adding a small amount
html code, setting some configuration settings (like fonts and colors) and supplying the
data. The graph software will then read the data and configuration at page view time and
produce the graph image dynamically within the page.

This software provides a very easy way to embed dynamically generated real time pie
charts and charts into web applications and HTML web pages. The graphing software is
very easy to use and it is perfectly possible to add professional quality real time pie
charting to web pages and applications within minutes. With a free trial and Money Back
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