I've got some publicly available data that I'd like to plot as a time series.
However, when I try to plot it, it plots two lines. It appears that Excel can't work out that the Year column is time. How do I convert it?
Year Area planted Area harvested Yield Production
1909 29,196 27,018 15.5 417,796
1910 32,878 28,152 15.3 429,875
1911 33,653 29,780 14.4 428,740
1912 35,709 28,406 14.2 402,703
This is the output
Convert your year to a date, and then convert the date to a year.
The formula is: YEAR(DATE(A2,1,1))
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Its excel-2013. I have some data points as below.I want to be able to show the start time, finish time of a particular job for a specific date in a excel sheet. And i want to do it for ~30 days of a month. But when i plot it using simple line chart, its not detecting and plotting the exact the 'start time' in Y axis. Can you guide me here , how i can do this?
Date Start Time Finish Time Duration
1-Jan-20 1/2/2020 2:48 1/2/2020 7:12 4.4
2-Jan-20 1/3/2020 2:34 1/3/2020 8:25 5.85
3-Jan-20 1/4/2020 3:14 1/4/2020 9:04 5.84
4-Jan-20 1/5/2020 1:19 1/5/2020 5:50 4.52
5-Jan-20 1/6/2020 2:29 1/6/2020 6:39 4.16
6-Jan-20 1/7/2020 2:14 1/7/2020 8:22 6.15
I tried to use line chart but in that the Y axis i.e the start time value is converted to number automatically. And even formatting that to the time data type is not helping.Its coming something as below.
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It sounds like you're describing a Gantt chart. Those are used for project management. Excel doesn't have a simple way to make Gantt charts. (MS Project is another Micro Soft application, and it does.) But I did find a link to an Excel template, and there are other templates our there as well. Just search "Excel Gantt".
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/present-your-data-in-a-gantt-chart-in-excel-f8910ab4-ceda-4521-8207-f0fb34d9e2b6
Software: MS Excel 2016
Files: GitHub Repository
Referring Question: MS Excel Scatterplot converts Months to Numbers
I created scatterplot in month_unordered_axis.xlsx from following data
Then I customized X-axis so it displays only month
Unfortunately the scatterplot (in Chart1 of month_unordered_axis.xlsx) starts with October rather than January.
How to order the X-axis so it displays from January to December?
Your graph is displaying October as the minimum value from its automatic formatting of max/min values. i believe if you scroll up in that formatting window on the right while you have the X-axis selected you will see an option for min and max value. You could set this for the minimum value you in your graph to 36892. This corresponds to the integer value for you lowest date in your series. The unfortunate side effect is that half your circle will be cut off as it extends into the range that is less than your minimum value. You can also set your maximum date to 37256. There are a few other end numbers you can use to give the same results but its essentially the end of December start of January the following year that allow December to be displayed.
Now if you want every month to be displayed (which is independent of placing max min values on your graph), look for the UNITS and Major box. Since you will want ever major line displayed with the name of a month, you will need to make sure the next grid line is a month away. Since not all month are not equal in length you need to play with this number a bit to suit your needs. I started with 30 and wound up with 2 Januaries back to back. However bump it up to 31 and then it tips over into the next month.
The important thing to note here is that you are not actually graphing by months along the X-axis. You are actually plotting by the number of days since January 1st 1900. so January 1st 2001 is 36892 days since January 1st 1900. What excel is doing is counting those days, determine what the date is in a way we like to read it and displaying only the portion we want it to. So for mmmm it the full spelling of the month. And you can see why each grid line being 31 days away is needed to jump into the next month. The kicker is, the grid line is not necessarily the 1st of each month due to the over stepping that is done when you advance 31 days in a month that has 28, 29, or 30 days. and that error gets compounded through the year.
Try using 32 as theMajor Unit step first before putting min and max caps on. (31 resulted in Feb being skipped on my screen). You should still see your axis start before Jan, but your months should all be in order, all displayed and no circles being cut off. Adding the max and min to the axis will cut off your circles but limit the axis to only displaying 12 months.
I have data that looks as shown below
The blue line is for 2016 and the orange line is for 2017.
The X-Axis represents Days which are equivalent days between years. So for example day 20 might be 5/1/17 (for the 2017 year) and 5/2/16 (for the 2016 year).
The Y-Axis is the number of hours enrolled and each day it increases until around day 130 when the registration system closes.
I have historical data for 5 years but I want to make a forecast where the 2017 curve takes the same shape as the previous year's curve.
I have tried the Forecasting tool in Excel 2016 in two ways:
1. Forecast just on the 2017 data - not correct because it has no way to take the shape of historical data into account.
2. I lined up 2016 and 2017 in the same column then did the forecast but it was still completely wrong.
I tried also charting the curves and using linear, logistic, polynomial but none of thse approximate my actual curve.
I am using Excel and I am having issues with the order of my dates and times being arranged properly in a pivot chart.
The format is 6/1/2017 9:07:02 AM and so on for a log file.
When the pivot table is set up it will put 10am and 11am and 12am before 2pm and 9 am. since it goes in order it believes 1 in 10 and 1 in 11 and 1 in 12 comes before 2 and 9.
I need to adjust these times to say like 6/1/2017 09:07:02 AM with the leading zero to eliminate these issues. This is a massive log file so it cannot be done by hand. Suggestions?
Convert the text to a date/time index and plot that instead:
=DATEVALUE(LEFT(A1,10))+TIMEVALUE(MID(A1,12,8))+IF(RIGHT(A1,2)="PM",0.5,)
I have a list of date+times and a count for each, eg:
Date/Time Count
6/19/12 3:00 AM 1
6/19/12 4:00 AM 1
6/19/12 5:00 AM 79
6/19/12 6:00 AM 322
6/19/12 7:00 AM 275
6/19/12 8:00 AM 143
I would like to graph based on hour but when I select the data and graph it excel groups all the hours in the day together. I would like to see the trend as time passes. What do I need to do?
Format the axis as a Text axis - Excel wants to format it as a Date axis, which has a minimum resolution of 1 day
I did some testing and what I did was plot the graph using the data that I had then changing the format of the date column to general number which gave me my trendline and then changing the format of the horizontal access datevalues in the chart to the date format. There must be an easier way though this works for now. Using Excel 2010.