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zklagge
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Mixup with Area and Selected Proportion of Total in Pie Charts

Hey!  

So I'm relatively new to PowerBI, and I'm running into a maddening issue with pie chart visuals.  Namely, when I create a dashboard that allows portions of the pie chart to be highlighted when other parts are, I find that rather than displaying the percentage of the area to highlight, PowerBI instead highlights a proportion of the total slice of the pie much smaller, proportional to the radius of the pie and not the area.  This makes every single selection appear to be a much smaller part of the pie which is at best annoying, and at worst would be a visual that could actively misinform my stakeholders.

 

Does anyone know of a quick fix?  I've dabbled in settings and, apart from disabling the thing, haven't found anything.  

 

Thanks for your help!

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v-xiaotang
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Hi @zklagge 

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Could you provide some pictures when you describe the issue? so that we can better understand it, thanks.

 

 

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Tang

If this post helps, please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Maroon owner has roughly 25% of the total under substitution cost savings, but on the graph, appears to have much lessMaroon owner has roughly 25% of the total under substitution cost savings, but on the graph, appears to have much lessHello, does the above help?  The issue is that the selection is highlighting in a deceptive way, essentially.

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