How to build a Ring Donut chart in Power BI


How to build a Ring Donut chart in Power BI!

Hey there Reader,

Last week, our post was about the new border and transparency options in Pie and Donut charts and specifically why they are NOT good features for Microsoft to add if we care about accessibility and usefulness...

This week however, I'm showing you ONE way borders can be kinda useful in a Donut Chart... to make a kind of Donut chart I'm calling a Ring Donut chart. You can see it to the right of this paragraph.

Just this one way for now. If I figure out more ways I'll let you know.

How to build a ring donut chart

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