In Microsoft Excel, you can create a Half Pie Chart if your data range has a total. A Half Pie Chart is a 180 degrees graph that represents a composition as a whole.

Excel 1. Open Microsoft Excel on your PC or Mac. 2. Open the document containing the data that you'd like to make a pie chart with. Click and drag to highlight all of the cells in the row or ...

The recipes suggest that one use pie charts for parts of a whole, column or bar charts for comparisons, line graphs for trends, histograms for distributions and scatter plots for relationships.