Pie Chart

Pie charts show data as proportional segments of a disc. They can be segmented by either multiple metrics or an attribute, and allow viewers to visualize the composition or distribution of a whole. Pie charts are commonly used to display market shares, budget allocations, or demographic distributions. For example, a pie chart can illustrate the percentage of sales contributed by different product categories.

Pie charts have the following sections:

• Metrics
• View by
• Configuration

In pie charts, you can also:

• Display the values as a percentage. To do so, add a date or an attribute to the View by section.

• In Configuration > Colors and Fills > Fill, you can choose how chart segments are displayed:

  • Pattern fill: Replaces solid colors with patterns (like crosshatching). This makes values easier to tell apart because they differ by both color and texture.
  • Outline fill: Tones down solid colors and shows emphasized outlines. This style is useful when you want to overlap another chart (for example, a line chart on top of a column chart) because it improves contrast and separation.
  
  

  See the Change Chart Fills section for further details.

• In Configuration > Canvas, configure data labels:

  • Display: Show or hide labels (auto · show · hide).
  • Style: auto or backplate. Backplate adds a background for contrast, whether a label sits inside a slice or outside as a callout.
  • Position (pie and donut charts only): auto · inside · outside. With auto (default), the whole chart uses outside callouts with leader lines when the smallest slice is 5% or less of the total, and inside labels otherwise. Inside and outside force that placement for every slice.

For information about common characteristics and settings of all visualizations, see the Visualization Types section.

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