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Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: pie chart

  • Pie charts are often criticised. Comparing the size of pie segments can be difficult, and many visualisation experts suggest that bar-charts should be used instead.

How to create your own

Create your own: doughnut

  • Doughnuts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Create your own: pie chart

  • Pie charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Doughnut pie

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Proportion of average weekly household expenditure by rural and urban areas, 2005-6.
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