Comments on: Pizza Pie

By: Hui...

Hui... — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:48:11 +0000

I like Donut Charts
The hole offsets the calories of the donut – I think!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:18:00 +0000

Angie - I've never used PhotoShop, so I can't help with #2. To make the chart fit the pie, you have to crop the pie. This is easy enough in a program like IrfanView, which is a great free image editor. When you apply the picture as the fill, it will then fill the whole object (the whole plot area).

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:35:17 +0000

Hi all – it’s me, pizza girl again. I’ve got the basic concept down, but am having some problems with the final step. A couple of questions:

1. Is it possible to resize the chart to fit the picture, rather than the other way round? When I try resizing in by dragging, and then re-fill with the picture, it does everything proportionally, so I still get the same amount of deadspace within the borders of my pie chart (pizza pic a little too small – am having problems finding large enough pictures). Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to resize the pizza image, say in photoshop?

2. When I copied the chart plus pizza filling and pasted into photoshop, to get rid of the unwanted bits as you suggested above, the pizza did not travel well – I just got the pie chart with a greyscale filling. Any ideas?

Thanks guys,

Angie

By: Gabriela Cerra

Gabriela Cerra — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:09:42 +0000

I would do a salad pie, the more you eat the more thinner you get.

For a pizza, the slice of pizza will get bigger the more weight you lose, so it is the slice you are allowed to eat. If the target is met, you can go and eat a whole pizza.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:17:31 +0000

Wouldn’t you want a legend next to the pie, showing the totals for each section? My first thought when I looked at it was that the pie was 100%, and someone was trying to starve to death :)

By: teylyn

teylyn — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:02:46 +0000

@Andy: It’s more like: you can eat this much pizza if you want to maintain your current weight. So, the thinner you get, the less pizza you’re allowed. ;-)

By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:38:33 +0000

Wow, you rock!! I’d share my pizza with you any day. Thank you so much. A.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:14:07 +0000

Andy -

It’s virtual pizza. Eat all you want, guilt-free.

By: Andy Pope

Andy Pope — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:05:16 +0000

So the more pizza you eat the thinner you get, cool :)

This diet sounds even better than JW’s patented eHAM® diet.

By: Glen Turpin

Glen Turpin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:13:41 +0000

I used this kind of pie chart in a presentation about restaurant loyalty marketing. I wanted to show what percentage of the market has loyalty programs, and free desserts are often used as rewards in such programs, so a literal pie chart seemed appropriate. (Mine was apple.)

I can only think of limited uses for this, but it can be a lighthearted way to show a simple relationship between two values. A playful chart can be a welcome break in a chart-heavy presentation, as long as it’s done tastefully (sorry for the pun) and doesn’t obscure the meaning of the data.