{"id":3039,"date":"2022-09-19T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2022-09-18T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T03:09:12","slug":"lesson-visualizing-part-to-whole-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/lesson-visualizing-part-to-whole-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson: Visualizing Part-to-Whole Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subhead\">Lesson: Part-to-Whole Relationships Beyond Pie Charts<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As discussed in the previous lesson, pie charts are sometimes good at representing part-to-whole relationships \u2014 but they&#8217;re not the only option. Charts that show the pieces of something larger are called <strong>composition charts<\/strong> or <strong>proportion charts<\/strong>, because they show how a large category is composed of smaller subcategories. Today we&#8217;ll look at other options beyond pie charts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with the slides here (second half): <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1otIweJ2OTOUkjkNJcxf4WKLpItdc8Px9fsroWPZYWpg\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All About Pie Charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pie Chart Alternatives\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AKH3UeMFxoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Video not showing up? <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AKH3UeMFxoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch on YouTube here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">Readings<\/span><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/clauswilke.com\/dataviz\/visualizing-proportions.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visualizing Proportions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">Discussion<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are so many good and bad pie charts out there, so we&#8217;re going to collect some more examples.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pie Chart Examples:<\/strong> Find an example of a pie chart that relates to a topic that interests you. It can be serious or lighthearted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where did you find the example and what does it show?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think it meets the criteria for being a good pie chart?<\/li>\n<li>If you had to choose a different chart type for this information, what would you choose?<\/li>\n<li>Include the image embedded in your discussion post so everyone can easily view it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">Assignment 10: Athletics Expenses<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this assignment, you&#8217;ll get more practice in Tableau by creating two different charts that show the same data. The dataset is WSU Athletics game-day expenses for each team, and this is intended as more independent practice in Tableau as well as making choices about chart types, colors and text. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson: Part-to-Whole Relationships Beyond Pie Charts As discussed in the previous lesson, pie charts are sometimes good at representing part-to-whole relationships \u2014 but they&#8217;re not the only option. Charts that show the pieces of something larger are called composition charts or proportion charts, because they show how a large category is composed of smaller subcategories&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/lesson-visualizing-part-to-whole-relationships\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Lesson: Visualizing Part-to-Whole Relationships\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}