Pie Chart Maker
Created:March 27, 2025
Create stunning pie charts to visualize proportions and percentages. Upload your own data or try our sample datasets.
Try it out!
- Click Sample Data and select Tips Data
- For Label column, select day
- For Value column, select total_bill
- Leave the Facet Column as None or select sex
- Toggle the Pull Out Largest Slice option if you prefer
- Toggle the Donut Chart option if you prefer that style
- Click Generate Pie Chart to visualize the data
Calculator
1. Load Your Data
2. Configure Chart
Learn More
What Are Pie Charts and How Do They Work?
Pie charts are circular statistical graphics that display data as slices to show numerical proportion. Each slice represents a category's proportional contribution to the whole dataset.
When to Use Pie Charts
Pie charts are most effective when:
- You need to show proportions or percentages of a whole
- You have a relatively small number of categories (ideally 5-7 or fewer)
- The categories sum to a meaningful total
- You want to emphasize a single category's share of the total
Limitations of Pie Charts
Pie charts have several limitations that can make them less effective for certain types of data:
- Difficult to compare slices that are similar in size
- Become cluttered and hard to read with too many categories
- Not ideal for showing changes over time
- Humans aren't as good at comparing angles as they are at comparing lengths
When dealing with many categories or when precise comparisons are important, consider using a bar chart instead. For temporal data, a line chart is often more appropriate.