Tableau 10 Complete Reference

Pie charts

To create a pie chart, change the mark type to Pie. This will give you an Angle shelf which you can use to encode a measure. Whatever dimension(s) you place on the Marks card (typically on the Color shelf) will define the slices of the pie:

Observe that the preceding pie chart uses the sum of the order quantity to define the angle of each slice; the higher the sum of the order quantity, the wider the slice. The Department dimension is slicing the measure and defining slices of the pie. This view also demonstrates the ability to place multiple fields on the Label shelf. The second SUM(Order Quantity) field is the percentage of total ...