Comments on: Exploded Pie Chart Replacement

By: Excel Theatre Blog » Excel Twitters 20091127

Excel Theatre Blog » Excel Twitters 20091127 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:19:01 +0000

[...] P.S. For more information on Pie Charts, and better ways to show your data, read Jon Peltier’s article, Exploded Pie Chart Replacement. [...]

By: Jeff Weir

Jeff Weir — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:18:44 +0000

Call that an exploding pie chart? Check out http://graphjam.com/2008/07/17/song-chart-memes-death-star/

Now THAT’s an exploding pie chart!

By: DaleW

DaleW — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:32:41 +0000

Jon, you want a *small* chart in Excel without sacrificing detail?

Try beating a color-coded MicroPie chart! It won’t explode, you can have as little pie as you want down to 8 point font — where we can still tell that the pumpkin-colored slice is the biggest.

I wonder if the Microsoft Sparklines-in-a-grid patent application covers them, too?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:49:29 +0000

Exploding Key Lime pies…

Sort of ties the whole blog together.

Cheers,

By: derek

derek — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:33:40 +0000

It makes me sad to think of the amount of quality coding dedicated to the 3D pie chart slice manipulation interface. Just think, at the click of a mouse, you can drag a slice of a three dimensional picture of a pie, and have the slice be re-rendered in its own new position.

But you try asking for labels in scatter charts, and it’s too much trouble for M$: try a third party add-in instead :-(

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:37:46 +0000

Oh Jon! Exploding pies .. what’s next