Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: donut chart
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
Explanatory diagram: donut chart
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
ggplot2 example: donut chart
Adrien Taudière (CC0); R code ↓; data: Heart Disease (Janosi et al. 1989), via datarium (CC BY 4.0)

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Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 152 papers since 2013, 66% in the last five years; mostly in Computer Science, Medicine, Business, Management and Accounting

Seminal references

R packages

R code of the ggplot2 example

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(datarium)

## Chest pain type, coded 1 to 4 in the UCI files. Four types: a legend,
## with the share of each.
pain <- heartdisease |>
  count(cp) |>
  mutate(type = c("Typical angina", "Atypical angina", "Non-anginal pain", "No chest pain")[cp],
         type = paste0(type, ", ", scales::percent(n / sum(n), accuracy = 1)),
         type = factor(type, levels = type))

p <- ggplot(pain, aes(x = 2, y = n, fill = type)) +
  geom_col(width = 1, colour = "white", linewidth = 0.5) +
  annotate("text", x = 0.5, y = 0, label = paste(sum(pain$n), "patients"),
           size = 3.5, colour = "#535353") +
  coord_radial(theta = "y", reverse = "theta", expand = FALSE) +
  scale_x_continuous(limits = c(0.5, 2.5)) +
  labs(title = "Over half the patients reported no chest pain",
       subtitle = "Assessed for coronary artery disease",
       x = NULL, y = NULL, fill = NULL,
       caption = "Data: Janosi et al. 1989 (UCI, CC BY 4.0), via datarium") +
  theme_lex_viz(grid = "", arrows = "") +
  theme(legend.position = "right", axis.text = element_blank())

Sources (25)

83 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 8 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/donut-chart.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. donut chart. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/donut-chart.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-donut-chart,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {donut chart},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/donut-chart.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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