Comments on: Peltier Loves Pie

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Chart Selection Guide » PTS Blog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:03:00 +0000

[...] Peltier Loves Pie, on Daily Dose of Excel [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:36:00 +0000

Oh yeah, stupid less than character. Doh!

As I was saying...

Kivell is <1% greater than Parent, while both are ten percent greater than Jardine. In Excel, the recreated pie shows a different illusion, I think it was Kivell appearing smaller than Parent and Jardine. Different orientations and colors are probably responsible for the changing illusions. When I sorted the pie slices by value, the illusion went away, and in a bar chart, there was no illusion, whether the bars were sorted or not.

Finally, I wrote about how I really do love pie:

Peltier Loves Pie

... just not pie charts.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:20:00 +0000

Truncated again. Dick??

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:13:00 +0000

Who truncated my comment? I was saying that Kivell is Peltier Loves Pie.

(just not pie charts).

By: Peltier Loves Pie » PTS Blog

Peltier Loves Pie » PTS Blog — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:01:00 +0000

[...] of chocolate and eggnog flavored pudding, and whipped cream. So you could accurately say that Peltier Loves Pie. But not pie [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:34:00 +0000

The pie you made illustrates the problems with this chart type. Jardine and Parent look to be the same size, while Kivell looks somewhat larger. The data labels indicate that Kivell is only slightly larger than Parent (by

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:03:00 +0000

Oh good, something else I don’t have time to play with.

By: Sandy Cavalaris

Sandy Cavalaris — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Try the “Enable Slicing Movement” too. Click on a slice. Cool, but it’s still a pie chart. Does it handle other charts? Can you turn off the 3D look?

By: mrt

mrt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000

There are also "tooltip" like percentages if you mouse over the names.

...mrt

By: Tim Mayes

Tim Mayes — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:46:00 +0000

I’ve been testing Widgenie as well, and giving them lots of feedback (it is a beta, and its rough in spots, but functional enough to use). It is pretty slick, but I suspect that Jon will object to the eye candy.

Debra, I hadn’t even thought to right-click on the chart. That is pretty slick.