So I really dislike formatting in Excel. When you have a scattered plot and lines that connect the scatter how do you get the labels to align with the month labels?
This one is unaligned.
This is aligned (note this image has been altered in an image editor)
I have tried to edit the date for the points, such as making it all the first of the month or the end of the month, but that didn't work.
You can get better alignment between the tics and the data points when using the Line graphs. Scatter plots are designed to be at the measure locations. So change to line graphs.
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is there a way to create a horizontal line in a boxplot?
so i have this boxplot and i want to get the orange line in the first boxplot with the y-axis 00:30 as a horizontal line. Is that even possible?
Edit:
so i have some data like that:
and now i want to create a horizontal line which is 30 minutes so my boxplot should look like this:
so normally it is one boxplot, because i filtered it
I tested an example with your needs. I used two charts and stacked them on top of each other.
The first graph has your data, while the second graph has the average.(I am not an expert in excel).
The data
The First graph
The second graph
In this graph I removed the background (transparent). After "them combination" i removed the axes.
The Final Graph
Then you can merge the two graphs so they always stay aligned.
I have a list of years from 2019-2098 that I want to be the x-axis values. The y-axis will be from 0 to 1 for probabilities. The line graph will measure the survival probability curve in relation to years. The issue is that I need a vertical line to reside on the mark for year 2042. Is there a way to do this? Everything I have found online doesn't work! The photo is what I get from doing an online example. It produces a vertical line but not in the correct spot.
You could add a separate data series that consists of (2042,0) and (2042,1).
Graph them as a scatterplot on top of your existing data. If needed, go to Change Chart Type and set the appearance to connect the two points with a line where the points don't show. Example: Scatter plot without points showing.
So I am trying to make a nice line graph for some data that I have. Each line has 100 data points, so excel automatically makes the horizontal axis from 1-100. I want to change the min/max values for the horizontal axis from 0-1, without moving the frame of the graph (i.e. without zooming in the graph). I just want to divide the horizontal axis numbers by 100 in order to rescale the time. This is what my graph looks like now:
http://imgur.com/33KD7RY
So I want to change the numbers on the horizontal axis to be fractions or decimals in the range [0,1]. Does anyone know how I can do this, or any other graphing software that would allow me to do this (I have tried using google sheets, but they have less options to customize axes than excel). Thank you!
Did you use two column to plot one line and did you use the Scatter with smooth lines chart type?
Have one column (X) go from 0 to 1 using intervals of 0.01 and your data in your second column (Y). When using a scatter with smooth lines chart type your answer should look like this:
image graph
Plotting your second line in the same chart can be done the same way by adding it through the 'select data' options of the chart.
I have a combo chart in excel, with clustered bar charts (for a box plot) and lines. I am trying to display the bar charts/box plot in front of the lines, but am able to do so.
I tried moving the bar charts to the top and/or bottom in "select data" - but no change.
Any suggestions?
Am using Excel 2013.
Thanks!
I believe it is not possible. You can change display ordering of Excel series by:
changing the plot order of the series (this is what you have done in the "Select data" dialog),
changing the axis on which the series are displayed (series on secondary axis are displayed over the series on the primary axis).
But from my experiments no combination of changes makes the lines appear behind the columns.
There are two workarounds that might or might not help you:
you can create two charts on top of each other and put the chart with the lines behind the one with the columns,
or you could create a line chart (most likely you would need scatter chart), that is not a single line but a series of segments where the columns are not shown (this one is not that easy to do)
What are the lines for? If you are just trying to identify some zones along the value axis, you could instead use stacked areas, which would give a banded appearance. Areas are always drawn behind bars and columns, while lines are always drawn in front of lines and columns.
Do you know if this chart, as shown in the following image, can be done in Excel?
Chart:
I don't even know how this kind of chart is named, so I cannot search in the web for tutorials. I don't need to display three points on every row as in this chart (one is enough), and even I can mark the control group manually.
Yes this can be done in Excel.
If you want vertical orientation like on the picture above, then you should probably use the Scatter chart with quite some modifications. You would set the x values of the series to your values and the y values can be just 1,2,3,4,5.... The biggest problem with this approach would be how to display the correct categories. There is a tool to help you do that and it is discussed here: https://superuser.com/questions/485883/how-to-create-dynamic-scatter-plot-matrix-with-labels-and-categories-on-both-axi
For horizontal one you can use a normal line chart - with hidden line and only markers visible (Excel doesn't support vertical line graphs).
Even three groups are easy to do, you just need to add three series and format them accordingly.
The lines are also quite easy to do, you add minor / major gridlines to the chart and then format those as well.