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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!
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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
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You can get a hole into it by applying an opacity mask.
But you can't control where it splits.
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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.
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Probably it will be easier to not use charts at all, but just do it with circle shapes?
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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.
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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
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Thank you Jane, but that link doesn't tell me how to split data in two half-donuts like example above.
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Hi Wuts,
I see 11 donut charts. What do you mean by two half-donuts?
Jane
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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!