Is this too complicated for pie charts?

Joshua McNichols

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Hello, I would like to create 8 pie charts based on the data below. Each pie chart would indicate the percentage of each 00:27:30 segment that was devoted to certain categories of radio. Pie charts on the left would measure, for ecah segment, how much International, National and Local content we aried. Pie charts on the right would measure, for each segment, how much News, Information and Non-news we aired. There are four segments in total for this program.

Is this simply too complicated to do?
The way I see it, I need the chart to calculate based on several "IF" scenarios. It must check to see if content comes from the correct segment before deciding whether to include it in the pie chart. It must divide a time by a time to get a percentage, which is a number formatting challenge. And finally, it must collate/combine the instances of each value, so that for example all the National stories are combined into one slice of pie.

Thank you so much!

I don't expect this is something you can explain simply in a forum. But I'd like to at least understand whether I am asking too much of excel. Here are the chart cells I'm converting to a pie chart:
Column BColumn CColumn DColumn EColumn F (h:mm:ss)
1ATC NEWSCASTNATNEWS0:05:00
130 Second Break 0:00:30
1 (MUST BE INTERNATIONAL) TAKEAWAY OR BBC NEWSINTNEWS0:00:00
130 second break 0:00:30
1Weekday NEWSLOCNEWS0:00:00
130 second break 0:00:30
1Jack Abramoff, ReformerNATINFO0:06:46
130 second break 0:00:30
1Canadian Mother Reunited With Children Years After Father Took Kids And Ran To MexicoINTNONEWS0:06:31
130 second break 0:00:30
2ATC NewscastNATNEWS0:04:15
230 second break 0:00:30
2LOCAL NEWSLOCNEWS0:00:00
2Arkansas Oil Pipeline SpillNATNEWS0:03:46
230 Second Break 0:00:30
2Steve Nallon, Famous For His Impression Of Margaret Thatcher, Reflects On What Made Her So Worthy Of SatireINTINFO0:03:19
230 second break 0:00:30
2David And Kristen Finch On Asperger DiagnosisNATNONEWS0:07:39
230 second break 0:00:30
230 Second Break 0:00:30
3ATC NewscastNATNEWS0:05:00
3BBC NEWSINTNEWS0:00:00
330 second break 0:00:30
3TAVIS News SegmentNATNEWS0:00:00
330 second break 0:00:30
3LOCAL NEWSLOCNEWS0:00:00
330 second break 0:00:30
3A Family Unmade and Made AgainNATNONEWS0:09:42
31 Minute Break 0:01:00
4ATC NewscastNATNEWS0:03:45
430 second break 0:00:30
4The Gum Scraper Of MexicoINTINFO0:05:42
430 second break 0:00:30
4CONVO - NEWSLOCNEWS0:00:00
430 second break 0:00:30
4TAKEAWAY, TAVIS OR AS IT HAPPENS NEWS NEWS0:00:00
4Takeaway NEWSNATNEWS0:00:21
430 second break 0:00:30
4Writers Almanac (NON NEWS)NATNONEWS0:05:00
430 second break 0:00:30

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