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Pies, donuts, and race tracks

Pies, donuts, and race tracks - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Pies, donuts, and race tracks

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- [Instructor] Alright, next up we've got pie and donut charts. I'm sure you already know what a pie chart is, one of the most basic chart types out there, it's really just used to compare proportions totalling 100%. But if you don't know much about donut charts, you'll probably want to pay attention, because donut charts aren't just pie charts with the center cut out, which is how they got their name, but they also introduce some capabilities that go well beyond what a pie chart can do. So for instance, you can add multiple rings to a donut chart like this, to show additional data series or metrics within the same visualization. Can also get clever and build some sort of a racetrack or pacing style visualization like this, which I'll show you in just a minute. So examples of when you'd use either a pie or a donut chart, anything that adds up to a percentage of a whole, so percentage of budget by department, internet users by age range, a breakdown of site traffic by source, you get…

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