So let's take a look at a new type of chart
that's available in Number version 5.0, just
released the other week, for Mac.
This new type of chart is called a donut chart.
Very similar to a pie chart.
Let's start with a simple table like this
where it's just a single basic row of data.
Normally for a pie chart you would select
the data, I just selected the entire table
there, and I'm going to hit Chart and I'm
going to select the pie chart.
This is what I get as a result here.
I get a pie chart that shows me the division
between the numbers.
There's just six of them here.
It's pretty basic and we're used to that.
But a donut chart, while displaying information
that's very similar, is a little different.
I'm going to select All again and I'm going
to click Chart and then you can see the new
donut chart right here.
I'll select that.
Now you can see it basically is like a pie
chart but the center is hollow.
Now the advantages to this depends on your
theory of charts and what sort of graphs and
things you want to use in your presentations
and your spreadsheets and all of that.
One of the advantage is that you can put something
in the middle here.
In fact, if I select it here and I go to Format
and Chart and Title you can see it actually
puts the title there at the center rather
than at the top or the bottom or somewhere
else.
So you can save a little space and not have
something outside like that.
Another thing about it that people talk about
is the visual aspect of it, that our eyes
are a little bit better at looking at these
basically curved bars.
It's like a curved bar chart, almost.
And identifying the percentages of like this
purple band here versus this blue band.
We're better at doing that with our brains
than doing it in a pie chart where it's all
filled in with a wedge.
So there's those kind of advantages and also
it's kind of the style now.
It's a more interesting style you see in a
lot of infographics and you see in a lot of
presentations.
So that's why it's been added.
Now there's a lot of different things that
you can do to customize it just similar to
the other charts.
You can, like I said, put the title there.
You've got the legend there at the top.
You can have that on or off.
Title position can go at the top if you really
wanted to.
You can do all sorts of different things.
Background fill, you know, change it to a
gradient, color make it something besides
white for instance if you really wanted to
do that.
The Shadow, you can have shadow over the different
bars individuals or all as one group so the
entire thing has a shadow to it.
There is no 3D version of the donut chart,
unlike pie charts, so that's something to
consider.
You can, for individual segments, change different
things.
So, for instance, if I wanted to highlight
a specific segment I can click it there and
you could see I change its order, I can change
it to a name and then get rid of the value
like that.
I can select all of these segments and do
that for all of them.
I can even change the Leader Line type for
instance or actually have the number embedded
inside of the bar there.
I can pull it out to have it a distance from
center so it's a good way to highlight a specific
item in there.
So a lot of things you can do.
You can do those with pie charts as well.
Donut charts a just a really good new addition
to Numbers and it brings it kind of up to
date with a lot of other spreadsheets that
now offer them.
You as you can expect you can also use these
donut charts inside of Pages and inside of
Keynote as well.
