Create a Pie Chart

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Essential Graphing • Summary Charts • Additional Examples of the Chart Platform • Create a Pie Chart

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Create a Pie Chart

You can create a pie chart either in the Chart launch window or in the report window after you create another type of chart.

Create a Pie Chart in the Chart Launch Window

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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Companies.jmp.

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Select Graph > Legacy > Chart.

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Select Size Co and click Categories, X, Levels.

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Select Pie Chart from the menu of chart types.

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Change a Bar Chart to a Pie Chart

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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Companies.jmp.

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Select Graph > Legacy > Chart.

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Select Size Co and click Categories, X, Levels.

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Select Pie Chart from the red triangle menu for chart.

You can also right-click in the chart and select Chart Options > Pie Chart.

Both of the above steps produce the same pie chart shown in Figure 13.16.

Figure 13.16 Example of a Pie Chart

The pie chart shows that many more companies are small then are big or medium.

Show the Values or Percentages for Each Category

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Starting with the pie chart in Figure 13.16, select Label Options > Show Labels from the red triangle menu for Chart.

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You can also right-click in the chart and select Label > Show Labels.

Label By Value is the default setting, so the pie chart now shows the number of companies that are big, medium, and small. See the chart on the left in Figure 13.16.

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To show percentages instead, select Label Options > Label by Percent of Total Values from the red triangle menu for Chart.

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You can also right-click in the chart and select Label > Label by Percent of Total Values.

The chart on the right shows the percentage of each company size.

Figure 13.17 Example of Pie Chart Labels: Values (left) and Percentages (right)

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Help created on 10/11/2018