Pie charts, scatter graphs and other geographical graphs explained Pie charts Pie charts show percentages as a circle, divided into segments.

See how UB’s visual vocabulary translates into compelling information graphics through pie, bar and line charts.

Excel displays percentages of a whole using pie charts, also known as wedge charts of circle graphs. Businesses tend to rely on such charts. The diagrams appear cluttered when graphing many items ...

The Circle Graph and Pie Chart No one really knows how Playfair dreamt up the pie chart. Some wonder whether it’d always been around—and if Playfair was just the first to actually publish one.

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 ...

William Playfair, the father of data visualisation, changed the way we understand information. His bar graphs, pie charts, and line graphs remain essential tools today, yet his name is barely known.

I have a confession. I never actually considered the origin of graphs or pie charts. It never occurred to me that they had any history at all, I probably assumed they were as old as mathematics ...