Calc • Re: Pie Chart conundrum

Thank you for the attachment. That was helpful.

I have a set of data I am hoping to turn into a set of pie charts. Each row in the Calc table represents one response form with five questions; each question is answered with a number from 1 to 5.

I believe you have two problems.

• Based on Calc Guide Chapter 3: Creating Charts and Graphs, Calc creates charts based on data values in your spreadsheet. For the Clean pie chart, those values would be 13, 2, 2, 7, 8, 1, the sizes of the six pie slices. However your cells do not contain those values. Instead you have the 33 values, and you need to count that there are 13 ones, 2 twos, 2 threes, …, and 1 dash. But you can create a pivot table for column B to get those counts. Use Count instead of Sum as the summary statistic for the pivot table.
• Next, Insert → Chart creates one chart. When you choose chart type Pie, you can specify only one column. Since you want four charts, you will have to use Insert → Chart four times.

Summary: Create four pivot tables for columns B, C, D, and E, then create four charts. The links above will help you understand Calc's chart and pivot table features.

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Statistics: Posted by MrProgrammer — Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:41 pm

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