I currently have a table as shown which users must input a from and to number, chose a key (picture) and enter which columns it will cover. My question is how would i make it so that there is a drop down box so that the keys may be selected, when the key is chosen the user can then input a column number e.g. from 0-6 which will then produce the picture to the graph from the length and columns that have been inputted. my explanation may not do justice but i have provided a picture which is very simple to understand the concept. please let me know of any solutions for this problem. Thankyou.
Process:
Step one - input chainage e.g 0-50
step two - pick the key (picture) e.g 1
step three - chose column number range e.g. 0-3
This will then insert the picture with a length (chainage) of 50 (starting at 0) and will have a width from 0-3.
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I am looking for a way to make a specific graph in Excel and I can't find a solution in Excel or on the web.
I have data about an online training with people completing parts of a course at a certain time:
FullName
Course
TIME
Name-A
Part 1
23/03/2022 10:38
Name-A
Part 2
23/03/2022 12:07
Name-A
Part 3
23/03/2022 16:55
Name-B
Part 1
11/03/2022 15:14
Name-B
Part 2
22/03/2022 12:08
Name-B
Part 3
28/03/2022 16:06
Name-B
Part 4
30/03/2022 14:55
Name-B
Part 5
18/04/2022 08:13
Name-C
Part 1
11/04/2022 15:25
Name-C
Part 2
20/04/2022 13:50
I would like to have a specific graph of this data:
On the vertical axis: one row for each user' name: Name-A, Name-B and Name-C.
On the horizontal axis: continuous time (say, in days) From the minimum time in the table (or less) to the maximum (or more)
Series of plots for the data: Each part of the course (from Part 1 to Part 5 here) would be a series of dots of a specific color, placed on the right row (for a learner's name) above the corresponding time on the horizontal axis.
Do you have any idea on how it could be achieved?
All the best, R.S.
Edit: The table does not appear as in the preview so i try to add a screenshot:
Screenshot of the table
So one way to visualise this as mentioned in the comments is to create a separate series for each person and show passing each part of the course as a vertical step:
It's based very loosely on this but I've set each day in the date range as the x-coordinates and used a lookup to transform the data in H2
=RIGHT(XLOOKUP($G2+TIME(23,59,59),FILTER($C$2:$C$11,$A$2:$A$11=H$1),FILTER($B$2:$B$11,$A$2:$A$11=H$1),0,-1))+(COLUMN()-COLUMN($G$1))*10
pulled down and across to give
Explanation
The data for the graph has dates spanning the times in the raw data for its x-coordinates (column G). I generated it manually but could have used Sequence in Excel 365.
There are three columns of y-values, H to J, generating a separate series for each person. The three lines are initially spaced out by 10 units based on the column number. In the formula above, the raw data is filtered by the person's name so the headers in columns H, I or J match the names in column A in the raw data. Xlookup is used with 'next smallest' match so where the date in column G is greater or equal to the date/time in column C it will return the corresponding course from column B. Because column C actually contains date/times, I have added almost 24 hours when matching the date in column G to make sure that a match is found if the day is the same, regardless of time. In a case like Name-A, where three courses are completed in the same day, this will automatically select the last one (Part 3). Then I take the right-hand character of the course name (which is a digit in the sample data) and add it to the relative column number multiplied by 10. If there is no match, Xlookup returns zero so you just get the initial value for each series (10, 20 or 30), otherwise the result will be an increase by one unit each time a course is passed. If you couldn't assume the last character of the course name was a digit, you would need a lookup to assign a number to each course name.
The data is then plotted on a scatter graph with points joined by straight lines. I had to adjust the x-axis manually to make the range correct and the labelling clearer.
This could be done without Excel 365, probably using Aggregate to get the highest row number with a condition on the name and date.
EDIT
I could have achieved the same result much more easily using Countifs to find how many courses had been passed by a certain person by a certain date:
=COUNTIFS($A$2:$A$11,H$1,$C$2:$C$11,"<="&$G2+TIME(23,59,59))+(COLUMN()-COLUMN($G$1))*10
This wouldn't have needed Excel 365. If you needed to give different courses different weightings, you could do this with a sumproduct and a lookup, also fairly straightforward.
I am trying to figure out how to find net growth in a workforce in a pivotable. As of right now, I have a column that says status and consist of "Hire" and "Separation". I have these both in the pivotable as count of. For example, it could say 6 hire and 2 separation. However, when I do subtotal to see the net growth, it shows these two values added not subtracted. I need it to do subtotal of "hire" count - "separation" count.
Does anyone know how to do this? I know that inserting a calculated field will not work as you cannot calculate a field based of the value of another column
You can accomplish this a little differently, by not using subtotals. Instead, drag Status to your value field twice. The first will show you the number of hires and fires. Then, click the second Count > Value Field Settings > Show Values As. Choose Difference From in the dropdown. Base field is status and Base item is previous.
This will add a second column showing the Net Growth (or loss) of each grouping.
Let's say I have this:
A B
1 10 20
2 12 30
3 25 15
4 40 30
How do I find the row which have same value in column B and different value for column A when compared to all the rows above or below ?
I want to find this cell:
A2:B2
Update: NO revision necessary
Following feedback I have tested this equation (below) with 20k rows (link below) - happy to report back results as expected/all still in order. No changes necessary/warranted. This function works just fine/as expected. Beaut!
Explanation:
When testing large samples of data of type 'integer' (say) that range a common order of magnitude/size (i.e. have material probability of re-occurring), the probability of obtaining a unique value for field A (col B, below screenshot) reduces, due to the law of large numbers (variance is what leads to unique values, and this reduces as the sample size increases).
As a consequence, one may encounter results = !Calc# which simply means 'no unique values could be found in col A (or they could but only for when col C was also unique - although the probability of this is remote, it's mainly due to numerous other cells in respective columns containing identical data. Throw a negative 100 in column A (assuming all other values are positive real/integer number plane), and you should see my eqn. below return '-100' and whatever the corresponding 'col-C' data is (assuming that is not unique too, as I have mentioned)...
NOW - back to the solution already! :)
ORIGINAL SOLN:
This will give you back every such combination (besides {12,30} there is also {40,30}):
=FILTER(B2:B5&"-"&C2:C5,(COUNTIFS(B2:B5,"="&$B$2:$B$5)=1)*(COUNTIFS(C2:C5,"="&$C$2:$C$5)>1))
OneDrive excel-linked spreadsheet for your convenience here, taking careful note of restrictions per 1st comment to this proposed soln.
Screenshot
Notes
Assumes you have Office 365 version of Excel
Good day everyone - I am trying to create a grade sheet for my swimming classes at school. It needs to be based on a few criteria - 1. boys/girls, 2. What stroke, 3. Time swum
I have a column for Time swum and a column with a dropdown of boys freestyle, girls freestyle etc to choose from. Then a criteria table where you get 30 point for swim x time less for each stroke for boys and girls. I was trying to use index match - but that will only return one of the strokes. As seen in the image - I need Column X to return the Points from column AB based on Column T dropdown selection, based on the range of the table with all the stroke times.
I've gotten this far : =index(AB2:AB6,MATCH(S2,AG2:AG6,1)), but that assumes all are swimming backstroke and all are girls.
I am hoping I am explaining this effectively enough.
Thanks in advance for the help.
You can use OFFSET to move the column you are matchin to the right. Also my understanding is that is for example in column "Freestyle Girls" someone reaches time 50 she should be put into line 55 - Grade A, 25 Points. If so you will need to do this:
1) reverse order of your data lines - if you want to use MATCH with last parameter "-1" (returns lowest value greater or equal to lookup value) for time (when you reach 50, you are worse then 40 so you will go to line with 55) you will need to have the values in descending order so the grades will go D to A* instead of A* to D.
2) use formula
=IFERROR(INDEX(AB:AB,MATCH(S2,OFFSET(AB:AB,0,MATCH(T2,AC1:AF1,0)),-1)),AB2)
Basically what it does is this:
OFFSET(AB:AB,0,MATCH(T2,AC1:AF1,0))
this moves the search column for the final MATCH to match the style you select
INDEX(AB:AB,MATCH(S2,OFFSET(...),-1))
this is standard search like you tried, only the OFFSET is inside so it looks in correct column.
As there is no value above Grade D it would cause error if somone nearly drowned and took 100 to finish so you need IFERROR to make sure it correct that.
Note: this assumes that value in T matches the values in the column names AC-AH. It your example the word order seems flipped. Also I put into my formula only 4 different styles so you will need to change the part stating AC1:AF1 to contain all the styles
Been looking for an answer to this question but as I found nothing I ask it here in hope of getting an answer. This is probably easy for most people.
I got three columns in excel where the first column has the values 1 OR 2 and the second column has the values 1 OR 2 and on the third column are reaction times for each subject (one row is a subject). So a subject can be either 1 or 2 on first column, either 1 or 2 on second column, and then their reaction time.
I want to do a clustered column plot. In the Y-axis I would like to have the third column (its reaction time in milliseconds). On the X-axis I would like to have two groups (take column one, where one group is 1 and the other is 2. Each group (1 and 2) will further be divided into two groups (second column, values 1 and 2). Those could be symbolized as two different colored bars within the two groups of the x-axis (what this second split reflects could be shown on a legend as color red and blue). If I mark all values and press "clustered column", the result is weird. And working with the stuff within the "select" button is like reading hieroglyphs.
(Unfortunately, I could not write how my data looks like because all numbers appears next to each other instead of having them as three columns.)
Look into pivot Tables and get a chart from that.
1) select the table data(have headers for Group 1, Group2, and Reaction)
2) Insert--> Pivotchart
3) Put Group1 into the Axis fields
4) Put Group2 into the Axis fields below Group1
5) Put Reaction into the Values box.
6) Reaction will likely appear as Sum, so click Reaction and 'Value Field Settings'
7) Change to Average(I presume you want an average of reaction times...)
8) Play around with right-clicking the various areas of the chart to learn about formatting the chart...