You can use circles, squares, or other shapes. Do the math and make sure each shape’s area is proportional to the number or percentage that it needs to encode.
Synonyms
- Area
- Bubble
Resources
Circle
Big numbers get big shapes, small numbers get small shapes.
Description
Functions
Examples
- The Twitter conversation about the Flint water crisis soared in 2016
- Only three major trade groups have come out in favor of Mr. Trump’s proposed tariffs
- Countries with the most billionaires
- This chart shows where Paul Manafort spent millions of dollars of allegedly laundered money
- The scale of the Paradise Papers leak
- UN Climate Talks trends
- Beverage deals on the boil
- Social media sites as pathways to news
- Heads of state weather defaults to hold power
- Shedding light on the dark web
- How to spend $100 billion
- Our work improves farmers’ livelihoods (page 7)
- Unearthing tax evasion
- A new study tries to unpack what makes people happy and sad
- Economic toll following the Nepal earthquake
- Deaths from police shootings in Japan, Britain, Germany, and the US
- Comparing sizes of tech companies
- Most common types of political participation in developing countries
- How many people around the world speak each language
Example Chart
