A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.

In business, pie charts are constant. Just remember your last team meeting, quarterly report, or even a brief look at your sales dashboard. They take raw numbers and make them into simple, colorful ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones monitor our time and internet usage and online surveys discern our opinions and likes. These data harvests are used for telling us how well ...

Pie charts are unique among the types of graphs Excel can make because they only work with limited sets of data. Unlike bar charts and line charts, two or more pie charts do not combine easily, ...

What an outstanding group of readers I have! Both the quality and the quantity of entries to the Graph Makeover Contest were amazing. There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. LinkedIn Influencer, Bernard Marr, published this post originally on LinkedIn. Pie charts are one of the most overused graphs in the ...

Editor's Note: We've been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,' we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

The pie chart got its name honestly: It’s shaped like a pie and carved into pieces like slices. But where its namesake generally contains gooey sweetness, pie graphs are filled with chalky, boring ...