title: Jquery Flot pie charts show data value instead of percentage
body: <p>I can't figure out how to get flot.pie to change the data shown in the labels from a percentage of the "raw data" to the actual data. In my example i've created a pie chart with the numbers of read/unread messages. </p>
  
  <p>Number of read messages:   50.
  Number of unread messages: 150.</p>
  
  <p>The created pie shows the percentage of read messages as 25%. On this spot i want to show the actual 50 messages. See image below:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ksJhA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The code i used to create the pie:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var data = [
      { label: "Read", data: 50, color: '#614E43' },
      { label: "Unread", data: 150, color: '#F5912D' }
  ];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $(function () {
          $.plot($("#placeholder"), data,
             {
              series: {
                  pie: {
                      show: true,
                      radius: 1,
                      label: {
                          show: true,
                          radius: 2 / 3,
                          formatter: function (label, series) {
                              return '&lt;div style="font-size:8pt;text-align:center;padding:2px;color:white;"&gt;' + label + '&lt;br/&gt;' + Math.round(series.percent) + '%&lt;/div&gt;';
  
                          },
                          threshold: 0.1
                      }
                  }
              },
              legend: {
                  show: false
              }
          });
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>With the answer of @Ryley I came to a dirty solution. When I output the series.data the values "1,150" and "1,50" were returned. I came up with the idea to substract the first 2 characters of the returned value and display the substracted value.</p>
  
  <pre><code>String(str).substring(2, str.lenght)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the pie chart I created with this solution:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/u7j7D.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>This is not the best solution, but it works for me. if someone knows a better solution....</p>