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    5 Cases For Donut Charts2

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    A donut chart is like a pie chart but with a hole in the middle. It focuses viewers on changes in overall values rather than slice sizes. The document provides 5 use cases for donut charts: comparing survey categories, visualizing percent of goal attainment, displaying health/fitness tracker data, monitoring battery usage, and showing an extra data point in the center.

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    A donut chart is like a pie chart but with a hole in the middle. It focuses viewers on changes in overall values rather than slice sizes. The document provides 5 use cases for donut charts: comparing survey categories, visualizing percent of goal attainment, displaying health/fitness tracker data, monitoring battery usage, and showing an extra data point in the center.

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    A donut chart is like a pie chart but with a hole in the middle. It focuses viewers on changes in overall values rather than slice sizes. The document provides 5 use cases for donut charts: comparing survey categories, visualizing percent of goal attainment, displaying health/fitness tracker data, monitoring battery usage, and showing an extra data point in the center.

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    A donut chart is like a pie chart but with a hole in the middle. It focuses viewers on changes in overall values rather than slice sizes. The document provides 5 use cases for donut charts: comparing survey categories, visualizing percent of goal attainment, displaying health/fitness tracker data, monitoring battery usage, and showing an extra data point in the center.

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    5 PRACTICAL USE CASES

    FOR DONUT CHARTS


    A donut chart is like a Pie chart but with an area of the center cut out. It shifts
    the focus of the viewer to changes in overall values instead of the size of the
    slice.

    Donut charts are useful for showing the percent of total and percent of plan.
    So, let’s discuss 5 use cases for Donut charts.

    1. COMPARE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES

    When you have a single-question survey, you can


    create a Donut chart to compare different

    ? categories.

    For example, let’s say you have an ice cream parlor


    and you want to find out which of the flavors your
    customers like the most. You can conduct a survey
    asking them to choose their favorite flavor. You can
    then build a Donut chart from the data collected to
    quickly analyze which flavor is the most popular
    among customers.

    Similarly, say you’re conducting research to find out which sport is the most
    popular among the students of a certain high school. You can create a Donut
    chart from the responses to identify the most popular sport quickly and easily.

    2. VISUALIZE PERCENT OF GOAL

    Another fantastic use case of the Donut chart is to visualize the actual
    performance relative to a stated goal.

    For example, the Donut charts below


    show the percentage of sales of
    45% 30% 20%
    different categories. The blue portion
    shows the actual sales, while the grey
    Furniture Office Technology
    portion represents the remaining sales.
    supplies
    However, Donut charts work well when
    0-100% you have something between 0, and
    100% or your data adds up to 100%.

    If our percent of sales goes over 100%,


    > 100% a Donut chart won’t be as effective.

    3. HEALTH FITNESS TRACKERS

    Many health fitness trackers, especially the ones


    in smartphones, use a Donut chart to display the
    data. For example, some health fitness trackers use
    a Donut chart to show the number of minutes you
    spent walking, running, and cycling. The total
    90
    number of minutes are displayed in the center
    min
    while the different arc length of the Donut chart
    represents the number of minutes spent on each
    activity (walking, running and cycling) relative to
    the total minutes spent.

    Similarly, some trackers use a Donut chart to show the total number of
    calories burnt in a day relative to the daily goal.

    4. BATTERY TIME MONITOR

    Donut charts can be used to create a


    battery monitor, which represents the
    amount of battery time that has been
    used relative to the total lifetime of
    used 30 min a battery. This makes it easy to understand
    from 120 min
    the total lifetime of the battery and how
    much of it has been used, which in turn
    can help you utilize your battery wisely.
    5. WHEN YOU WANT TO DISPLAY EXTRA DATAPOINT

    Since a Donut chart is hollow from the center, it’s best to use it when you want
    to display the stats of an extra data point. For example, let’s say you have sales
    data of a furniture company, and you want to display the increase in total
    revenue resulted from different categories. You can use the space in the
    middle of a Donut chart to show the total revenue.

    Other: $3.750

    Total: Sofas: $10.000


    Armchairs: $5.000
    $25.000

    Tables: $6.250

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