Definition of pie chart
: a circular chart cut by radii into segments illustrating relative magnitudes or frequencies — called also
circle graph
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Diversity reports feature colorful pie charts containing percentages, not raw numbers, alongside smiling photos of women and minorities and aspirational messages from executives, but no raw numbers.
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The following pie charts are from Statcast, and detail Pivetta’s pitch usage since entering the majors.
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Data visualization as a concept, of course, is hardly new (ask anyone who used crayons to color in a pie chart in grade school).
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One report had a pie chart indicating relatively high levels of inequality, while the other indicated relatively low levels.
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This pie chart from the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 17.5 million Americans bought their own coverage in 2017.
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Critics branded us McPaper, deriding our pie charts and bite-sized stories as junk-food journalism.
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Below each state name is the number of refugees, in bold, reflected in the pie chart
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The invention of the pie chart is credited to Playfair, but again Minard took an existing idea and vastly improved it.
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First Known Use of pie chart
1922
PIE CHART Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of pie chart for English Language Learners
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: a chart consisting of a circle that is divided into parts to show the size of the different amounts that are a part of a whole amount
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