2 posts tagged with "pie-chart"

The quarterly review loads a 14-tab spreadsheet to answer one question — "where do we actually spend our engineering time?" — because the wiki charts are stale screenshots from last quarter and the numbers table nobody reads. A dashboard is not a spreadsheet: it is the two charts that answer the two questions people keep asking.

Quick answer: build dashboard charts in Confluence with Mermaid pie and xychart-beta charts, rendered by Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence. Pie for shares, XY for trends — both as editable text that refreshes like code. This post gives you three copy-paste examples: an effort-share pie, a weekly trend XY, and a dual-series release dashboard.

Pie charts are one of the simplest and most effective ways to communicate proportional data. Whether you are reporting survey results, breaking down a project budget, or showing how your team allocates time across activities, a pie chart turns a list of numbers into a visual that anyone can read in seconds. Confluence is where your team already stores reports, retrospectives, and planning documents, so embedding pie charts directly on those pages keeps your data alongside the context that explains it.

With Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence, you can create pie charts and other data visualizations using plain text syntax. No image exports, no spreadsheet screenshots, no broken attachments. You write the code once, and the chart renders directly on the Confluence page, updating whenever you edit the underlying data.