Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: pie chart
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
Explanatory diagram: pie chart
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
ggplot2 example: pie chart
Adrien Taudière (CC0); R code ↓; data: Nightingale 1858, via HistData (Friendly et al. 2026) (GPL)
Wikidata image: pie chart
Morpheus7377 (CC0); Wikimedia Commons; item Q273404

Classification

Channels

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Attestation and synonyms

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 8 421 papers since 1878, 40% in the last five years; mostly in Social Sciences, Medicine, Computer Science; Wikidata

Seminal references

R packages

R code of the ggplot2 example

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(HistData)

deaths <- Nightingale |>
  summarise(across(c(Disease, Wounds, Other), sum)) |>
  pivot_longer(everything(), names_to = "cause", values_to = "n") |>
  mutate(cause = factor(cause, levels = cause),
         label = paste0(cause, "\n", scales::percent(n / sum(n), accuracy = 1)))

p <- ggplot(deaths, aes(x = "", y = n, fill = cause)) +
  geom_col(width = 1, colour = "white", linewidth = 0.5) +
  geom_text(aes(x = 1.8, label = label, colour = cause), position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5),
            size = 3.5, lineheight = 0.9) +
  coord_polar(theta = "y", direction = -1) +
  labs(title = "Disease caused four in five deaths",
       subtitle = "British army in the East, 1854–1856",
       x = NULL, y = NULL,
       caption = "Data: Nightingale 1858, via the HistData R package") +
  theme_lex_viz(grid = "", arrows = "") +
  theme(legend.position = "none", axis.text = element_blank())

Sources (78)

644 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 23 books

Show the 78 sources

Cite this entry

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

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

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

Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-02. Images last changed on 2026-11-12. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.