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Pie Chart Vs Bar Graph. Pie charts will work better for some data sets but bar graphs will work better for others. As logical results-oriented business folk we like to be data-based. For instance knowing the vote totals of each candidate in an election is helpful but the percentage each candidate won of the electorate is more valuable. A pie chart is a circular graph that helps to understand the proportion of each category relating to a whole.
Because our brain is not good at comparing the parts of a pie chart but its very good at comparing the length of bars in a bar chart. The height of each one corresponds to the value. A pie chart serves the same purpose of a line graph and a bar graph in the sense it is designed to show differences between two separate subjects although it eschews the common linear style found in the two other graphs. A pie chart is a very common type of graph that is in the shape of a circle with the circle representing a collective of 100. A pie chart shows how each category relates to the whole. While a pie chart is a chart that categorizes different data split into slices bar charts plot them either vertically or horizontally.
Unless you have a specific reason to use the pie chart its better to use a bar chart almost in all the cases.
If you think the reader would also like to know the percentage relationship between categories on a bar graph opt for a pie chart instead. As logical results-oriented business folk we like to be data-based. A pie chart is a circular graph that helps to understand the proportion of each category relating to a whole. For instance knowing the vote totals of each candidate in an election is helpful but the percentage each candidate won of the electorate is more valuable. Its what we use to make decisions even gut decisions. LR1-01-CYU2 Solving two-step equations.