How to Use pie chart in a Sentence
pie chart
noun-
Try a sampler pizza that’s like a pie chart of Fralo all-stars.
— Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 27 Dec. 2020 -
Think about your budget like a pie chart, and try out this metric to keep on track.
— Lorenzo Escobal, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021 -
Track’s slice in the pie chart of her life is ever-expanding.
— Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Imagine the framework as a pie chart cut into six slices.
— Aaron Burciaga, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 -
But the pie chart in the post does not reflect the typical MISO fuel mix in recent years.
— Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022 -
But how will the pie chart of culpability among those three leaders be cut?
— Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021 -
Our lives are not a pie chart in which adding to one piece necessarily means taking away from the other.
— Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022 -
Over those 10 years, the total of the pie chart increased, but the percentage never really changed.
— Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 14 June 2019 -
If my life were a pie chart, there would be a slice of about one-eighth that would represent the part of my life that was percolating along fairly well.
— Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019 -
The data type for a pie chart, for example, would be a list of pairs of elements, with the first being a word or phrase and the second a percentage.
— Lee Phillips, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2020 -
BofA has a pie chart to visualize that: Don't bank on that ratio lasting for long.
— Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021 -
And the composition of that pie chart is constantly changing.
— Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2021 -
The crypto could crater once again, and miners lured by the bonanza could flood the market, lowering the piece of the industry pie chart that Stronghold would garner.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021 -
Fill in a pie chart allotting a percentage to each dimension.
— Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 6 June 2021 -
The app would show a pie chart divided into four slices: cash, crypto, rewards, and game points for systems like Microsoft’s Xbox.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020 -
One of the biggest slices of Lollapalooza’s demographic pie chart is high schoolers.
— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022 -
Data visualization as a concept, of course, is hardly new (ask anyone who used crayons to color in a pie chart in grade school).
— Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018 -
The invention of the pie chart is credited to Playfair, but again Minard took an existing idea and vastly improved it.
— Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2017 -
Republicans created a pie chart that depicts the $160 billion in virus aid as a mere 8% of overall spending.
— Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2021 -
Nearly every statistician would recommend a bar chart over a pie chart.
— Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020 -
The back cover of the book showed a pie chart of DiDi’s priorities in life, divided into percentages.
— Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022 -
The pie chart below was developed by the Legislative Services Agency.
— Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2022 -
The following pie charts are from Statcast, and detail Pivetta’s pitch usage since entering the majors.
— Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018 -
Ramos helps conceptualize her own self-care as an imaginary pie chart in her head, with slices for spending time on work, family, friends, and herself.
— Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 Jan. 2019 -
But pie charts persist because people like circles more than rectangles.
— Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020 -
This means that the majority of our robocall pie chart is dominated by scammers and disreputable sales tactics.
— Chris Nicoli, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021 -
This pie chart illustrates the proportion of breast cancer cases that run in families, compared with sporadic cases.
— Ashleen Knutsen, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2019 -
The conundrum is perfectly illustrated with a pie chart.
— jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021 -
Critics branded us McPaper, deriding our pie charts and bite-sized stories as junk-food journalism.
— Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017 -
The full report is only available to Midia subscribers, but Mulligan’s summary, and an accompanying pie chart showing the market share of the different services, can be found here.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
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