The Pie Chart is a primary chart bang out in Excel.

Pie charts work best to display data with a small number of categories (2-5).

Pie charts should be avoided when there are many categories, or when categories do not total 100%.

Example pie chart with ice cream flavor survey results

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See also: Dataviz expert Ann Emery’sPie Chart Guidelines.

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