Market share
How the market splits between the players in it.
Four slices adding to a hundred: the one case where a pie chart beats a bar chart, because the whole is the story.
Open in the editorPie chart
Show each category's share of the total as proportional slices of a circle.
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Budget split
Where the annual budget goes.
Payroll is well over half. Once one slice passes fifty percent a pie stops needing labels to make its point.
Open in the editorTraffic sources
Share of sessions per acquisition channel.
Organic and direct together are two thirds of traffic, which is a very different business from one where paid is two thirds.
Open in the editorDevice breakdown
Desktop against mobile against tablet.
Three slices, one obvious conclusion, no axis required. Design reviews that start with this chart argue less.
Open in the editorRevenue by plan
Which pricing tier actually earns.
The free tier is three percent of revenue and most of the support load — a pie is how that gets on a pricing agenda.
Open in the editorExpenses by category
The quarter's discretionary spend at a glance.
Small categories that fit in one chart, all part of the same envelope. Anything with more than six slices belongs in a bar chart instead.
Open in the editorEnergy mix
Generation share per source.
Renewables against everything else, as a share of one grid. Reported yearly, this pie is a policy scorecard.
Open in the editorTime allocation
How a working week is really spent.
Deep work barely edges out meetings. Because the slices add to a whole week, moving one means taking from another — which is the honest version of the conversation.
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