Beispiel-CSV
| Date | Android | iOS | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 | 44 | 29 | 27 |
| 2016-01-01 | 68 | 22 | 10 |
| 2020-01-01 | 72 | 27 | 1 |
| 2024-01-01 | 71 | 28 | 1 |
Video-Vorlage
Animated Pie Chart Race Maker
Turn a spreadsheet of shares over time into a pie chart that actually moves: slices swell, shrink and trade dominance as your data plays out. Upload a sheet, pick your columns, export an MP4.
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Pie Fightanimated pie chart
Was ist ein Pie Fight?
An animated pie chart plays out exactly this: Android's slice of the phone market climbs from 44% to 71% between 2012 and 2020 while iOS's shrinks to make room, and you watch the trade happen instead of comparing two screenshots. Each slice is a share of a whole, a platform's install base, a company's budget, a category of spending, and its angle grows or shrinks as you move from one row of data to the next. PlotSet's version of this, called Pie Fight, turns those shifts into a short video: slices swell, shrink and swap dominance in front of the viewer instead of sitting there as one static image.
The format only works when the parts genuinely add up to a whole. That's what separates it from a bar chart race, where each bar can grow on its own and the total doesn't matter. A pie fight forces every category to compete for the same fixed space: if one slice gets bigger, something else has to get smaller, and watching that tradeoff happen is the actual point of the video. It reads well with two competing categories (iOS vs Android) or three to six; past that, the smallest slices shrink into slivers nobody can read.
PlotSet renders this from a plain spreadsheet: one column per slice, one row per point in time, and interpolates the motion between rows the same way it does for a bar chart race. A handful of rows is enough to get real movement; more rows just make the transitions smoother.
Die Daten, die Sie brauchen
Strukturieren Sie Ihr Sheet so: Dann funktioniert die Pie Fight-Vorlage ohne Probleme.
Date
One row per point in time, oldest first. Each remaining column is a slice.
The Date column is the clock the whole animation runs on: one row per point in time, oldest first, and it needs to actually parse as a date (2024-01-01, Jan 2024, or just 2024 all work). Every other column becomes one slice of the pie, and its header is what shows up as that slice's label, so name your columns the way you'd want them read on screen.
You don't need the row totals to land exactly on 100 (PlotSet works out each slice's angle from the values it's given), but the numbers should represent real parts of the same whole, or the pie stops meaning anything. Four rows is enough to show real movement; six to ten spaced-out snapshots (every few years for a decade-long trend, say) makes for a fuller, more satisfying race without padding the video out.
Wann Sie ein Pie Fight erstellen sollten
Market share stories
iOS vs Android, browser share, streaming platforms, console generations: anything where a handful of players are splitting one market and the split has moved meaningfully over the years.
Budget or spending composition
Where a department's budget goes, how a household splits its spending, how a portfolio is allocated. The pie forces the categories to visibly trade space with each other as priorities shift.
Two to six competing categories
This is the sweet spot for a pie. Fewer than two and there's nothing to fight over; more than six and the smallest slices become unreadable slivers before the video even gets interesting.
Short, feed-ready content
A 15-20 second render with a clean ending ranking works well dropped into a LinkedIn post, a YouTube short or embedded in an article. People get the shift without reading a single number.
Wann Sie es auslassen sollten
More than six or seven categories
Past that point the smallest wedges are too thin to read and the animation turns into a blur of color rather than a story. Group the long tail into an 'Other' column, or switch to a bar chart race, which handles more entities gracefully.
Columns that don't add up to a meaningful whole
If your numbers aren't parts of the same total at each point in time, say, independent revenue figures for unrelated companies, a pie misrepresents the relationship. Use Race Bar or Race Column instead; they don't assume the values sum to anything.
Readers need exact percentages
A moving wedge is great for showing that Android pulled ahead of iOS, but nobody's pausing the video to read '71.4%' off an angle. Pair the video with a table or static chart if precise figures matter.
So erstellen Sie ein Pie Fight
Von der Tabelle zum gerendertem MP4, Schritt für Schritt.
Open the Pie Fight template
PlotSet loads Pie Fight with the Android, iOS and 'Other' data used throughout this page, so you can see the expected sheet shape before you upload anything of your own.
Shape your sheet as one column per slice
First column is the date, oldest row first. Every other column is one category that becomes a slice, and its header becomes that slice's label in the video.
Upload your CSV or Excel file
Import a CSV, an .xlsx file, or paste straight from a spreadsheet. The template reads your header row automatically and turns each numeric column into a wedge of the pie.
Set the palette and the rhythm
Pick a color per slice, choose a typeface for the labels, and set how long the animation plays before it settles. Add a music track if the video is going somewhere social.
Render and download the MP4
PlotSet renders the video on its servers, so there's nothing to install. Preview it, render, then download the MP4 or grab a shareable link sized for wherever you're posting.
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Vorlage öffnenPie Fight: häufige Fragen
A pie chart that plays like a short video instead of standing still: each slice's angle updates as time moves forward, so a market split or budget breakdown visibly reshuffles instead of being shown as separate snapshots you have to compare yourself.
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