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Michael Olafusi
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Michael Olafusi is a 9x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a business intelligence consultant. He is the lead consultant and founder of MHS Analytics Inc. in Canada and UrBizEdge Limited. He has been consulting for clients across North America, Europe, and Africa on data analysis, business intelligence, and financial modeling for the past 10 years. Outside of his consulting business, he is a member of Rotary and the Southern Cruisers Riding Club (SCRC) Chapter 373. He is a proud member of the Canadian Red Cross friendly calls volunteer team. He is also a faculty member at WorldQuant University, USA.
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Doughnut chart

A doughnut chart is like a pie chart with a big hole in the center. So, it is technically the same chart with applicable settings. The following screenshot is a doughnut chart of the same regional sales data used to demonstrate a pie chart:

Figure 8.26 – Doughnut chart showing regional sales

Figure 8.26 – Doughnut chart showing regional sales

Just like the pie chart, the default doughnut chart suffers some usability issues: no visible values for the categories and a color matching task. We can fix the issue by setting the layout to Layout 1 as we did for the pie chart. See Figure 8.27 for the outcome:

Figure 8.27 – Changing the default layout of the doughnut chart

Figure 8.27 – Changing the default layout of the doughnut chart

Every other point we covered about the pie chart also applies to the doughnut chart. So, we will move on to the next chart.

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Michael Olafusi is a 9x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a business intelligence consultant. He is the lead consultant and founder of MHS Analytics Inc. in Canada and UrBizEdge Limited. He has been consulting for clients across North America, Europe, and Africa on data analysis, business intelligence, and financial modeling for the past 10 years. Outside of his consulting business, he is a member of Rotary and the Southern Cruisers Riding Club (SCRC) Chapter 373. He is a proud member of the Canadian Red Cross friendly calls volunteer team. He is also a faculty member at WorldQuant University, USA.
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