# How to add 25/50/75/100% filled circles to a table?

Often I see in a paper a table with a column of circles which are filled for 25/50/75/100% to show priority/level of meeting requirements, to mention yes/no/unknown/NA etc?

• Do such (usage of) circles have a specific name?
• How can I add such circles to a table in an easy way?
• What are common other (visualization) techniques used in scientific papers to visualize this kind of levels/ranking/categorization? So far I have seen these circles and ++ .. --. But I am novice so maybe there are more techniques.

Thanks

• Can you add an image of such circles to your question? I'm not sure I understand which ones you're referring to. – Alenanno Jan 11 '16 at 16:13
• – Paul Gessler Jan 11 '16 at 17:07
• Paul. This link is awesome but can we do this rating also clockwise eg 25% is black fill 12-3 o clock – robert Jan 11 '16 at 17:11

Do you mean something like below? Make sure to define your own commands. Like this, you can still switch to something different later on

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{xits-Math}
\newcommand*{\noPrior}{\ensuremath{\mdlgwhtcircle}}
\newcommand*{\halfPrior}{\ensuremath{\circlerighthalfblack}}
\newcommand*{\fullPrior}{\ensuremath{\mdlgblkcircle}}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\toprule
Symbol & Meaning\\
\midrule
\noPrior & \SI{0}{\percent}\\
\quarterPrior & \SI{25}{\percent}\\
\halfPrior & \SI{50}{\percent}\\
\threeQuarterPrior & \SI{75}{\percent}\\
\fullPrior & \SI{100}{\percent}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}


Here is an idea for TikZ:

% arara: pdflatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*{\priority}[1]{\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.15]%
\draw (0,0) circle (1);
\fill[fill opacity=0.5,fill=blue] (0,0) -- (90:1) arc (90:90-#1*3.6:1) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\toprule
Symbol & Meaning\\
\midrule
\priority{0} & \SI{0}{\percent}\\
\priority{15} & \SI{15}{\percent}\\
\priority{33} & \SI{33}{\percent}\\
\priority{75} & \SI{75}{\percent}\\
\priority{100} & \SI{100}{\percent}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}


• Yes cool however not usable for plain pdflatex. Also is there a TIKZ impl which works from 0% to 100%? – robert Jan 11 '16 at 17:21
• @robert Pls see my edit. – LaRiFaRi Jan 11 '16 at 17:33

For 0%, 50%, and 100% you could use the fontawesome glyphs \faCircleO, \faAdjust, and \faCircle. Requires xelatex or lualatex.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
\faCircle