Pie Chart – Other Visualization Formats/Designing With Data
Channel: Jeff Thompson
Date: 18/03/2021

A classic chart, and one we see a lot, is the pie chart. It's meant to show proportional data, rather than data that changes over time. Chart.js does a great job of looking through our data and doing the math to compute the ratios of the different datapoints.

Here, we graph US occupations in creative industries, pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

👩‍💻 https://editor.p5js.org/jeffThompson/sketches/VZw-SGO1f

ALL THE VIDEOS IN THIS UNIT
🎥 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsGCUnpinsDnRq3Bj8tv0RXj8lTjD2iNt

DATA SOURCE
💾 https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm

CHALLENGES
❓ Can you find other proportion data that can be plotted this way?
❓ Changing the color of our bars is a bit tricky. Can you read the reference page above and get that to work (likely with a smaller dataset)?

SEE ALSO
💡 https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/charts/doughnut.html