Donut Chart, Two Sides

[wuts23143389]

Hi all, how do you make such a chart and have it to be live data?

I know how to make a donut chart with pie chart no problem, but I don't know how to split into two sides this example above. Much appreciated!

[Monika Gause]

You can get a hole into it by applying an opacity mask.

But you can't control where it splits.

[wuts23143389]

Thank you Monika. How would you tackle this design challenge then? I can see myself do two charts, then mask one for the left half, the other one for the right half, but it seems quite tedious.

[Monika Gause]

Probably it will be easier to not use charts at all, but just do it with circle shapes?

How to create and modify live shapes in Illustrator

[wuts23143389]

Thank you Monika, I think that's the best solution for now, though I'd like to see Illustrator integrate this into its chart tool for the live data function.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

Hi

Yes, this can be done quite easily. Watch this Youtube video from ACP tonyharmer​ on how:

How To Make a Donut/Doughnut Chart in Illustrator Keeping Data Live - YouTube

Tony has several courses on lynda.com / linkedinlearning.com such as this one on infographics:

Creating Infographics with Illustrator  as well as some on his youtube channel.

Jane

[wuts23143389]

Thank you Jane, but that link doesn't tell me how to split data in two half-donuts like example above.

[jane-e]

Hi Wuts,

I see 11 donut charts. What do you mean by two half-donuts?

Jane

[wuts23143389]

Hi Jane, the left side is female % and right side is male %. It's actually two data going opposite direction. If you cut in half, then you get half-donut shape.

But from your comment, I finally figured it out that I've been doing it all wrong. I should have input the data like this:

In the beginning I only inputted 3 numbers, when I should have been 4.

Thank you!