how to make a pie chart in excel for expenses

I showed this picture to an unbiased bystander (my wife, who has a PhD in the biological sciences and who now teaches math and science), and asked how well it showed monthly and cumulative spending. I think the reader is able to understand the depth of the financial stimulus package, and when. On the left we can see the ‘running total’ of the value of assets purchased, against the ‘monthly total’ on the right hand side, keyed at the top of the graphic. The iGraphics Explained blog posted an attempted clarification of and justification for this beast in Data Visualisation and Quantitative Easing explained by Ciaran Hughes in the Daily Telegraph. If you view it at full size, you can at least read the numeric labels in the margin, but reduced to fit into a medium sized monitor, it’s illegible. On the other, it does not clearly show anything without a lot of mental gymnastics.

The chart appeared in the British newspaper the Guardian, and shows the “money injected into the UK economy by the British government to help ease the recession.” This illustration is reduced to fit click on this image to open the original in all of its full sized glory.Īpparently there has been much criticism of this chart.

The Chart Porn blog referred me to an attractive but remarkably ineffective chart, in UK Quantitative Easing.

How to make a pie chart in excel for expenses