Note: Pie charts can also be used as a mark type in a visualization.įor more information, see Pie mark. For more information, see Actions and Dashboards. You can make a pie chart interactive in a dashboard. If you don't see labels, press Ctrl + Shift + B (press ñ + z + B on a Mac) to make sure most of the individual labels are visible.
The basic building blocks for a pie chart are as follows: You should now be able to create a pie chart within SPSS using one of its legacy tools.Use pie charts to show proportions of a whole. However, if you want to save the chart as it is, you can right-click on it within the Output Viewer, and copy it as an image file (which you can then use in other programs). There are many ways in which you can customize or edit your pie chart in SPSS. The SPSS Output Viewer will pop up with the pie chart that you’ve created. Select the “Titles” button, add your chart title, and select “Continue” to return to the “Define Pie: Summaries for Groups of Cases” dialog box.Ĭlick “OK” to generate your pie chart. We recommend that you give your pie chart a title. Select your desired option under “Slices Represent.” For this pie chart, we want to display “% of cases.” Select the variable for which you wish to create a pie chart (“Ice Cream” in this example), then use the arrow button to move it into the “Define Slices by” box (as illustrated above). It is a good idea to click the “Reset” button to clear any previous settings. Unfortunately, this simplest approach doesnt always work as. Under “Data in Chart Are,” select “Summaries for groups of cases.” Click “Define.” This brings up the “Define Pie: Summaries for Groups of Cases” dialog box illustrated below. You might try removing the 0 value altogether if its a literal 0 and not the result of a formula. This brings up the “Pie Charts” dialog box illustrated below. The easiest way to create a pie bar chart in SPSS is to select Graphs -> Legacy Dialogs -> Pie, as illustrated below: We want to create a pie chart to visualize their responses.
The data in this file (first 20 records displayed) is from a hypothetical study of participants’ favorite ice cream flavors. (Check out our tutorials on importing data from Excel or MySQL into SPSS).