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FIGurE 5-2 Tool window in Illustrator
When you release the mouse button, a spreadsheet window pops up where
you enter your data. For a single pie chart, enter each data point from left
to right, and the values show up in your chart in the same order.
For this example, use the results from a poll on FlowingData. Readers
were asked what data-related field they were most interested in. There
were 831 responses.
AreA of Interest
number of Votes
Statistics
172
Design
136
Business
135
Cartography
101
Information Science
80
Web Analytics
68
Programming
50
Engineering
29
Mathematics
19
Other
41
enter the numbers in the spreadsheet in Illustrator, as shown in Fig-
ure 5-3. The order you enter the numbers will match the order the wedges
appear in your pie chart, starting at the top and then rotating clockwise.
Notice that the poll results are organized from greatest to least and then
end with the Other category. This kind of sorting can make your pie charts
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