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Sunburst chart maker

Share-of-total with one level of drill-down: the ring inside holds the regions, the ring outside holds their countries. Impressive in reviews, honest about its limits.

Global revenue by region, then by sub-market — the inner ring argues regions, the outer ring answers "which part of it?".

Paste, pick, export

Each row carries a group, a sub-group, and a value — region and country, department and team. When the table holds that two-level hierarchy, the sunburst appears in the preview. One honest note: PowerPoint has no native sunburst object, so the editable PPTX export flattens it to a ring chart — the on-screen preview keeps the full sunburst, and the animated GIF carries the real thing into your deck as motion. Free, no sign-up.

When a sunburst wins

The whole has a whole inside it. Global → region → country; budget → department → team. One drill-down level, shown in place.
"Which part of that segment?" is the follow-up. The outer ring pre-answers the question every exec asks about the inner ring.
The room likes data. Technical and analytical audiences read nested rings happily — it signals depth without a word.

When it lets you down

The room is conservative. Finance committees and board packs prefer stacked bars — same hierarchy, zero novelty risk.
Three-plus levels deep. The outer rings get too thin to read. Two levels is the honest maximum.
Precise comparison is the point. Angles within rings are for impression, not arithmetic — exact gaps belong on bars.

Try it with this data

Region	Sub-market	Revenue share (%)
North America	United States	28
North America	Canada & Mexico	12
Europe	DACH	15
Europe	Rest of Europe	20
APAC	Japan	10
APAC	Rest of APAC	15

Field notes on sunbursts

Two levels, full stop. The third ring is where readability goes to die.
Inner ring carries the argument. Name the region story first; the outer ring is evidence on demand, not the opening statement.
Export check: ring, not rings. The editable PPTX flattens to one level — present the hierarchy live, or animate it as a GIF.
Composition still sells reallocation. Same sales logic as every share chart — see field note #1.

A two-level table from your last market review?

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From the field notes

"This is where the money sits" — composition as a sales argument is in field note #1, section three.

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