A pie chart (or a circle chart ) is a circular statistical graphic which is divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each slice (and consequently its central angle and area ) is proportional to the quantity it represents. While it is named for its resemblance to a pie which has been sliced, there are variations on the way it can be presented. The earliest known pie chart is generally credited to William Playfair 's Statistical Breviary of 1801.
27-530: [REDACTED] Look up coxcomb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coxcomb may refer to: Coxcomb (ornithology) , a fleshy growth on the top of the head of many gallinaceous birds Coxcomb (plant) or Celosia , a small genus of edible and ornamental plants The Coxcomb (play) , an early Jacobean era stage play The Coxcomb (album) , 1999 album by David Grubbs Fop or coxcomb, 17th century slang for
54-501: A cock's comb . She was later assumed to have created it due to the obscurity and lack of practicality of Playfair's creation. Nightingale's polar area diagram , or occasionally the Nightingale rose diagram , equivalent to a modern circular histogram , to illustrate seasonal sources of patient mortality in the military field hospital she managed, was published in Notes on Matters Affecting
81-417: A sunburst chart or a multilevel pie chart, is used to visualize hierarchical data, depicted by concentric circles. The circle in the center represents the root node, with the hierarchy moving outward from the center. A segment of the inner circle bears a hierarchical relationship to those segments of the outer circle which lie within the angular sweep of the parent segment. A variant of the polar area chart
108-502: A man overly concerned with his appearance A type of crystal habit in minerals A type of cap and bells or fool's hat See also [ edit ] Cockscomb (disambiguation) Coxcomb diagram or polar area diagram, a type of pie chart attributed to Florence Nightingale Coxcomb Mountains , mountain range of southern California Coxcomb Peak , a dolerite elevation in Antarctica Coxcomb Peak (Colorado) ,
135-436: A man overly concerned with his appearance A type of crystal habit in minerals A type of cap and bells or fool's hat See also [ edit ] Cockscomb (disambiguation) Coxcomb diagram or polar area diagram, a type of pie chart attributed to Florence Nightingale Coxcomb Mountains , mountain range of southern California Coxcomb Peak , a dolerite elevation in Antarctica Coxcomb Peak (Colorado) ,
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189-539: A mountain in Colorado, US Coxcomb prominent , a moth Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Coxcomb . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coxcomb&oldid=1227987787 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Plant common name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
216-399: A total 100%. They are often 10 by 10 grids, where each cell represents 1%. Despite the name, circles, pictograms (such as of people), and other shapes may be used instead of squares. One major benefit to square charts is that smaller percentages, difficult to see on traditional pie charts, can be easily depicted. The following example chart is based on preliminary results of the election for
243-401: Is a variant of the pie chart, with a blank center allowing for additional information about the data as a whole to be included. Doughnut charts are similar to pie charts in that their aim is to illustrate proportions. This type of circular graph can support multiple statistics at once and it provides a better data intensity ratio to standard pie charts. It does not have to contain information in
270-595: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages coxcomb [REDACTED] Look up coxcomb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coxcomb may refer to: Coxcomb (ornithology) , a fleshy growth on the top of the head of many gallinaceous birds Coxcomb (plant) or Celosia , a small genus of edible and ornamental plants The Coxcomb (play) , an early Jacobean era stage play The Coxcomb (album) , 1999 album by David Grubbs Fop or coxcomb, 17th century slang for
297-484: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Coxcomb diagram Pie charts are very widely used in the business world and the mass media. However, they have been criticized, and many experts recommend avoiding them, as research has shown it is difficult to compare different sections of a given pie chart, or to compare data across different pie charts. Pie charts can be replaced in most cases by other plots such as
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#1732855717755324-411: Is that they cannot show more than a few values without separating the visual encoding (the “slices”) from the data they represent (typically percentages). When slices become too small, pie charts have to rely on colors, textures or arrows so the reader can understand them. This makes them unsuitable for use with larger amounts of data. Pie charts also take up a larger amount of space on the page compared to
351-407: Is the spie chart, designed by Dror Feitelson. The design superimposes a normal pie chart with a modified polar area chart to permit the comparison of two sets of related data. The base pie chart represents the first data set in the usual way, with different slice sizes. The second set is represented by the superimposed polar area chart, using the same angles as the base, and adjusting the radii to fit
378-435: Is used instead of length and when different items are shown as different shapes. Further, in research performed at AT&T Bell Laboratories , it was shown that comparison by angle was less accurate than comparison by length. Most subjects have difficulty ordering the slices in the pie chart by size; when an equivalent bar chart is used the comparison is much easier. Similarly, comparisons between data sets are easier using
405-456: Is used to give the chart a 3D look. Often used for aesthetic reasons, the third dimension does not improve the reading of the data; on the contrary, these plots are difficult to interpret because of the distorted effect of perspective associated with the third dimension. The use of superfluous dimensions not used to display the data of interest is discouraged for charts in general, not only for pie charts. A doughnut chart (also spelled donut)
432-406: Is used to plot cyclic phenomena (e.g., counts of deaths by month). For example, if the counts of deaths in each month for a year are to be plotted then there will be 12 sectors (one per month) all with the same angle of 30 degrees each. The radius of each sector would be proportional to the square root of the death rate for the month, so the area of a sector represents the rate of deaths in a month. If
459-508: The bar chart , box plot , dot plot , etc. The earliest known pie chart is generally credited to William Playfair 's Statistical Breviary of 1801, in which two such graphs are used. Playfair presented an illustration, which contained a series of pie charts. One of those charts depicted the proportions of the Turkish Empire located in Asia , Europe and Africa before 1789. This invention
486-470: The European Parliament in 2004 . The table lists the number of seats allocated to each party group, along with the derived percentage of the total that they each make up. The values in the last column, the derived central angle of each sector, is found by taking that percentage of 360. *Because of rounding , these totals do not add up to 100 and 360. The size of each central angle is proportional to
513-636: The Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army and sent to Queen Victoria in 1858. According to the historian Hugh Small, "she may have been the first to use [pie charts] for persuading people of the need for change." The French engineer Charles Joseph Minard also used pie charts, in 1858. A map of his from 1858 used pie charts to represent the cattle sent from all around France for consumption in Paris . A 3D pie chart, or perspective pie chart,
540-415: The bar chart. However, if the goal is to compare a given category (a slice of the pie) with the total (the whole pie) in a single chart and the multiple is close to 25 or 50 percent, then a pie chart can often be more effective than a bar graph. In a pie chart with many section, several values may be represented with the same or similar colors, making interpretation difficult. Several studies presented at
567-433: The center. A chart with one or more sectors separated from the rest of the disk is known as an exploded pie chart . This effect is used to either highlight a sector, or to highlight smaller segments of the chart with small proportions. The polar area diagram is similar to a usual pie chart, except sectors have equal angles and differ rather in how far each sector extends from the center of the circle. The polar area diagram
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#1732855717755594-539: The data. For example, the base pie chart could show the distribution of age and gender groups in a population, and the overlay their representation among road casualties. Age and gender groups that are especially susceptible to being involved in accidents then stand out as slices that extend beyond the original pie chart. Square charts, also called waffle charts, are a form of pie charts that use squares instead of circles to represent percentages. Similar to basic circular pie charts, square pie charts take each percentage out of
621-416: The death rate in each month is subdivided by cause of death, it is possible to make multiple comparisons on one diagram, as is seen in the polar area diagram famously developed by Florence Nightingale . The first known use of polar area diagrams was by André-Michel Guerry , which he called courbes circulaires (circular curves), in an 1829 paper showing seasonal and daily variation in wind direction over
648-402: The more flexible bar charts, which do not need to have separate legends, and can display other values such as averages or targets at the same time. Statisticians generally regard pie charts as a poor method of displaying information, and they are uncommon in scientific literature. One reason is that it is more difficult for comparisons to be made between the size of items in a chart when area
675-405: The size of the corresponding quantity, here the number of seats. Since the sum of the central angles has to be 360°, the central angle for a quantity that is a fraction Q of the total is 360 Q degrees. In the example, the central angle for the largest group (European People's Party (EPP)) is 135.7° because 0.377 times 360, rounded to one decimal place, equals 135.7. A flaw exhibited by pie charts
702-571: The year and births and deaths by hour of the day. Léon Lalanne later used a polar diagram to show the frequency of wind directions around compass points in 1843. The wind rose is still used by meteorologists . Nightingale published her rose diagram in 1858. Although the name "coxcomb" has come to be associated with this type of diagram, Nightingale originally used the term to refer to the publication in which this diagram first appeared—an attention-getting book of charts and tables—rather than to this specific type of diagram. A ring chart, also known as
729-411: Was not widely used at first. Playfair thought that pie charts were in need of a third dimension to add additional information. Florence Nightingale may not have invented the pie chart, but she adapted it to make it more readable, which fostered its wide use, still today. Nightingale reconfigured the pie chart making the length of the wedges variable instead of their width. The graph, then, resembled
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