Part-to-wholeSample
Pie chart
Divides a circle into slices proportional to each category’s share of the whole.
How the cloud budget splits across services.
Sample data
Use it when
- Two to five parts of a single whole
- One share is the story, such as "over half"
Avoid it when
- Comparing similar-sized slices: use a bar chart
- More than five or six categories
- Adding depth or tilt: 3D makes the slices facing you look bigger than they are
Display modes
- Default
- How the cloud budget splits across services.
- Annotated
- Singles out compute so its share of the whole is the one number read.
- 3D
- Why 3D pies mislead. Tilting the circle widens the slices at the front and back and squeezes the ones at the sides, and the visible wall adds ink only to the slices facing you. Compare each real share with the angle and area it gets on screen, then press Flat for the honest pie.
