Recurring vs one-off revenue
Revenue quality, with the total in the middle.
A donut keeps the centre free for the number that matters — total revenue — while the ring answers how repeatable it is.
Open in the editorDonut chart
A pie with a hole in the middle, leaving room for a headline KPI at the center.
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Customer segments
Share of accounts per segment.
Four segments of comparable size — the case where a donut reads better than a pie, because no slice dominates and the hole carries the account count.
Open in the editorStorage usage
What is filling up the disk.
Video is half the bill. The middle of the ring is where the total in terabytes goes, so the chart is a dashboard tile on its own.
Open in the editorTicket status
Open, pending, escalated and closed at a glance.
A support dashboard's headline tile: the ring is the mix, the hole holds today's total, and escalated is the only slice anyone should worry about.
Open in the editorBrowser mix
Browser share with the session total in the hole.
The same data as a browser bar chart, framed as 'out of all sessions' instead of 'ranked'. Pick this one when the total is the headline.
Open in the editorMarketing spend by channel
How the marketing budget is distributed.
Budget splits are naturally a whole. Put the total spend in the centre and the ring becomes an allocation argument.
Open in the editorPortfolio allocation
Asset split across an investment portfolio.
Every rebalancing conversation is about this ring. Target allocation goes in the middle; the deviation is what you act on.
Open in the editorTeam composition
Roles inside a product department.
One designer per three engineers, framed as shares of a whole team rather than absolute counts, so it stays comparable as the team grows.
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