Pie

Pie is represented with the  icon.

A Pie works in one specific situation: when you want to compare to the proportion between two values. With more than two values, a Bar is always more efficient. Here's an example of a visualization, representing the unranked sales by category with a Pie chart and a Bar chart:

You can easily rank the categories with bars. It's much more difficult to do it with a Pie. The goal of data visualization is to help you make decisions as fast as possible. The best visualization is the one that answers your question the fastest. That's why pies are so bad with more than two values.

When you select Pie in the Mark type selector, a new Property becomes available: Angle. To create a Pie, put a Dimension in Color and a Measure in the Angle property. Here's an example of a Pie chart:

In the preceding screenshot, we represented the percentage of profit generated by the top five customers.

For the next two Mark types, there is no great example to build with Sample Superstore, so I'll show you some use cases. You'll know how and when to use them. The first one is the Gantt Bar.

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