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Do pie charts require a legend?
Pie charts are designed to show parts of a whole, so any sum below or above 100% doesn’t represent the entire picture. Finally, when it comes to legends, pie charts don’t generally need one. It’s cleaner to label your data directly. To avoid clutter, label your pie slices directly and skip the legend.
How do you make a pie chart not show 0?
Here’s how:
- Click the File tab and choose Options.
- Choose Advanced in the left pane.
- In the Display options for this worksheet section, choose the appropriate sheet from the drop-down menu.
- Uncheck the Show a zero in cells that have zero value option (as shown in Figure C).
- Click OK.
What do the wedges in a pie chart represent?
A pie chart is a circular chart divided into wedge-like sectors, illustrating proportion. Each wedge represents a proportionate part of the whole, and the total value of the pie is always 100 percent. Pie charts can make the size of portions easy to understand at a glance.
What are the advantages of using a pie chart?
Advantages
- display relative proportions of multiple classes of data.
- size of the circle can be made proportional to the total quantity it represents.
- summarize a large data set in visual form.
- be visually simpler than other types of graphs.
- permit a visual check of the reasonableness or accuracy of calculations.
Why are there so many wedges in a pie chart?
Some critics of pie charts point out that the portions are hard to compare across other pie charts and if a pie chart has too many wedges, even wedges in a single pie chart are hard to visually contrast against each other compared to the height of bars in a bar graph for example.
Why are pie charts not a good way to represent data?
Pie charts are simply not a very good way of representing data (see here, here, here or here for some discussions of why) and you’ve stumbled on one of the reasons why: they can’t represent data with a value of 0.
How is the total value of a pie graph determined?
A pie chart or pie graph is a circular chart divided into wedge-like sectors, illustrating proportion. Each wedge represents a proportionate part of the whole, and the total value of the pie is always 100 percent.
How to hide category and value in pie chart?
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