Replace my pie chart with a clearer option
Checks whether your pie chart is the right choice for your shares and recommends one clearer alternative, using only the figures you paste.
Task:
Tell me whether a pie chart is the right choice for the shares below, and recommend one clearer alternative if it is not.
Context:
The shares describe [what is divided, for example budget or survey answers]. The reader must be able to [compare sizes, see the biggest part or see the parts add up to a whole]. It will appear in [slide, report or web page].
Rules:
- Count the slices and compare the sizes, then judge whether a reader could rank them by eye.
- Do not invent numbers. If the shares do not add up to the total, say so and show your sum, marking it as computed, and say which values you only read from the paste.
- Name the single best alternative, such as a sorted bar chart or a stacked bar, and when a pie is still acceptable.
- If there are fewer than 3 categories or the shares are nearly equal, say that a chart may add little and a sentence or table could do the job.
Result:
A verdict in one sentence, the recommended alternative with how to order and label it in at most four lines, and one line on a pie's one acceptable use here, if any.
Material:
[paste the categories and their shares or values here]