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| Jiangpeng |
Posted - 10/19/2016 : 04:50:31 AM
Dear all,
I drew a pie of pie. But I wonder what the total percentage of the small pie should be, 100% or 40%?
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| Jiangpeng |
Posted - 10/19/2016 : 10:06:24 PM
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Originally posted by Hideo Fujii
Hi Jiangpeng,
It depends on what you want - either to show either the percentages of individuals in the grand total 100%
(in your case of 20%-20%), or subgroups WITHIN a group as 100% (your 50%-50%).
However, as you explicitly take out the group (of 40%) as another pie outside, I assume you want to depict the
subgroups' percentages WITHIN the 40%-group; therefore I believe you want to present it in the later 50%-50%
way. (Of course, it is not right or wrong as I wrote above.) If you want to show the individual percentages,
you don't need to take them out as another pie, and for example, you can simply explode the two 20% wedges
like below:
Hope this suggestion helps.
--Hideo Fujii
OriginLab
Dear Hideo,
Thank you very much for your kind reply. I have understand the usage of the two kinds of pie of pie in different intentions.
I have another two question.
1. Do you think the former have more information than the latter? The small pie in the former has two meanings: the percentage of the two parts in the big pie (20%-20%); the area of the two parts indicates the percentage in the small pie. But the latter just indicates the percentage of two parts in the small pie.
2. Which form do you think is more popularly and commonly used (former or latter)?
I drew a pie of pie in my paper in the form of the latter (50%-50%). However, the reviewer misunderstood the meaning and mixed it with the former.
Thank your.
Jiangpeng |
| Hideo Fujii |
Posted - 10/19/2016 : 12:03:49 PM
Hi Jiangpeng,
It depends on what you want - either to show either the percentages of individuals in the grand total 100%
(in your case of 20%-20%), or subgroups WITHIN a group as 100% (your 50%-50%).
However, as you explicitly take out the group (of 40%) as another pie outside, I assume you want to depict the
subgroups' percentages WITHIN the 40%-group; therefore I believe you want to present it in the later 50%-50%
way. (Of course, it is not right or wrong as I wrote above.) If you want to show the individual percentages,
you don't need to take them out as another pie, and for example, you can simply explode the two 20% wedges
like below:
Hope this suggestion helps.
--Hideo Fujii
OriginLab |
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