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Pie charts divide a circle into slices proportional to each category’s share of the total. Best for communicating part-to-whole proportions to a broad audience when you have a small number of clearly distinct categories (typically five or fewer).

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Variants

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Pie

Standard filled circle. Each slice’s arc length is proportional to its value.

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Donut

A pie with a hollow center. Select Donut under Shape in the Style tab to switch; select Pie to switch back.

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Center total

A donut shows the measure’s grand total in its hole by default, using the measure’s number format. Use the Show total button in the Data labels section of the Style tab to turn it off or on again. The button appears only for a donut, since a pie has no hollow center to fill. The total uses the font size set in the Data labels section, the same as the slice labels. If you turn on the Percentage label, the total also shows 100% on a second line, since the whole is the entire circle.

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Color and slice ordering

Slices are colored using the active color palette in palette order, matched to the sort order of your query results. To change which slice appears first, adjust the sort in the results table.