I am trying to give specific bins on my histogram plot different bin widths. Is there a way to say I want bin 1 to have a width 1-10 and bin 20 to have a width of 300-1000?
Excel builtin histogram tool only allows equal bin-width. We must create instead a "variable width column chart" as explained by Jon Peltier. This can be a tedious and error-prone process if you've got a lot of bins.
Video tutorial for Excel 2016. The main steps are as followed:
Create a cascade table:
should turn into:
Note: dummy + Label columns aren't required, but helps with labeling
generates an stacked area chart (a type of Area chart)
Then change the Primary Axis's category to Time-Scale to straighten the areas into bars. As explained by Jon Peltier, this is because:
This is somewhat misleading, as Excel time-scale axes only consider
dates and ignore times.
I'm trying to create what I would call a Vertical stacked scatter plot or a scatte plot with a 2 dimensional x-axis. I tried using excel's normal charting tools as well as its pivot charting functionality, but I have not been able to crack this one. As anyone had any luck with this type of a chart or can you recommend a tool that can handle it. I've included an image of what I'm trying to achieve below:
The Y axis has months, and the X axis is a combination of Year and Units.
Thanks in advance for your input.
This can be easily handled in Tableau, if you and your users have access to it. For example, using sample Excel data with this format:
Date Units
1/1/2014 10
2/1/2014 20
3/1/2014 30
4/1/2014 40
...
You can create the scatter plot you've shown in your mock-up by doing the following:
Drag Date to Rows and change it to Month level
Drag Date to Columns and leave it at Year level
Drag Units to Columns
Change the Marks type to Circle
Reduce the size of the circles so they look like points
Sort Month according to your preference
Here's a link to a screenshot of the set-up and resulting plot:
screenshot of scatter plot
There are also many formatting options to change the look of the plot.
I'm trying to create a combined scatter plot and "bar chart" - the bars extend the full height of the chart, but their width varies (I have a table with the start and finish points on the x-axis).
Here is a mock-up:
http://imgur.com/EHzv5YB
Do you think this is possible in Excel? I have found some links on how to overlay multiple plot types, but none involving variable width shaded areas as seen in the example.
Would really appreciate any help. Thanks!
I've written a tutorial showing how to Highlight Certain Time Periods in a Chart.
Please dont eat me because of this question :)
I have some data in excel and I would like to make a graphical representation of those data. Structure of my data:
persons ID : from 1 to 485 to every person, there is one parameter like average jumping distance and another parameter (like height) and finally there is a class to which every person belongs to (1, 2 or 3).
To assign persons to classes I have used k-means algorithm.
Now I would like to make a graph of this result. How can I do it please in excel (or by using another tool)?
Thank you
I would use a scatter (XY chart with markers and no lines). Plot average jumping distance on one axis, height on the second axis. Then for the classes I would separate all the data into 3 series and use different colors for each series. I would adjust the marker size to see which one works best with the data.
Here is a fast example to give you an idea how to it would look like. Its not as easy as just clicking once to insert the chart from the data though:
I'm looking for a multiple axis line chart similar to the one in the image below, (which is a javascript chart made by amcharts).
Does excel have an option to draw charts line these? Note there are 3 Y axes, and 3 line charts allowing you to compare data.
Is it possible to get more than 3 data points, each with unique axis on one chart ?
It is possible to get both the primary and secondary axes on one side of the chart by designating the secondary axis for one of the series.
To get the primary axis on the right side with the secondary axis, you need to set to "High" the Axis Labels option in the Format Axis dialog box for the primary axis.
To get the secondary axis on the left side with the primary axis, you need to set to "Low" the Axis Labels option in the Format Axis dialog box for the secondary axis.
I know of no way to get a third set of axis labels on a single chart. You could fake in axis labels & ticks with text boxes and lines, but it would be hard to get everything aligned correctly.
The more feasible route is that suggested by zx8754: Create a second chart, turning off titles, left axes, etc. and lay it over the first chart. See my very crude mockup which hasn't been fine-tuned yet.
The picture you showd in the question is actually a chart made using JavaScript. It is actually very easy to plot multi-axis chart using JavaScript with the help of 3rd party libraries like HighChart.js or D3.js. Here I propose to use the Funfun Excel add-in which allows you to use JavaScript directly in Excel so you could plot chart like you've showed easily in Excel. Here I made an example using Funfun in Excel.
You could see in this chart you have one axis of Rainfall at the left side while two axis of Temperature and Sea-pressure level at the right side. This is also a combination of line chart and bar chart for different datasets. In this example, with the help of the Funfun add-in, I used HighChart.js to plot this chart.
Funfun also has an online editor in which you could test your JavaScript code with you data. You could check the detailed code of this example on the link below.
https://www.funfun.io/1/#/edit/5a43b416b848f771fbcdee2c
Edit: The content on the previous link has been changed so I posted a
new link here. The link below is the original link
https://www.funfun.io/1/#/edit/5a55dc978dfd67466879eb24
If you are satisfied with the result you achieved in the online editor, you could easily load the result into you Excel using the URL above. Of couse first you need to insert the Funfun add-in from Insert - My add-ins. Here are some screenshots showing how you could do this.
Disclosure: I'm a developer of Funfun
There is a way of displaying 3 Y axis see here.
Excel supports Secondary Axis, i.e. only 2 Y axis. Other way would be to chart the 3rd one separately, and overlay on top of the main chart.
An alternative is to normalize the data. Below are three sets of data with widely varying ranges. In the top chart you can see the variation in one series clearly, in another not so clearly, and the third not at all.
In the second range, I have adjusted the series names to include the data range, using this formula in cell C15 and copying it to D15:E15
=C2&" ("&MIN(C3:C9)&" to "&MAX(C3:C9)&")"
I have normalized the values in the data range using this formula in C15 and copying it to the entire range C16:E22
=100*(C3-MIN(C$3:C$9))/(MAX(C$3:C$9)-MIN(C$3:C$9))
In the second chart, you can see a pattern: all series have a low in January, rising to a high in March, and dropping to medium-low value in June or July.
You can modify the normalizing formula however you need:
=100*C3/MAX(C$3:C$9)
=C3/MAX(C$3:C$9)
=(C3-AVERAGE(C$3:C$9))/STDEV(C$3:C$9)
etc.
Taking the answer above as guidance;
I made an extra graph for "hours worked by month", then copy/special-pasted it as a 'linked picture' for use under my other graphs. in other words, I copy pasted my existing graphs over the linked picture made from my new graph with the new axis.. And because it is a linked picture it always updates.
Make it easy on yourself though, make sure you copy an existing graph to build your 'picture' graph - then delete the series or change the data source to what you need as an extra axis. That way you won't have to mess around resizing.
The results were not too bad considering what I wanted to achieve; basically a list of incident frequency bar graph, with a performance tread line, and then a solid 'backdrop' of hours worked.
Thanks to the guy above for the idea!
Best and Free ( maybe only) solution for this is google sheets.
i don't know whether it plots as u expected or not but certainly you can draw multiple axes.
Regards
keerthan