How frustrating is Excel.. working on this for half an hour now.
I simply try to make a frequency plot of two groups, with different colours. On the x-axis I would like to display the subject.ids per bar.
However, if I select a different range for the horizontal x axis per series (series 1 = blue, series 2 = orange) with the subject id, it changes the x-axis in the other series to the same. What in hell am i doing wrong?
3007 1
23121 1
3009 1
3005 1
3011 2
23171 2
3207 2
3102 3
3207 6
13302 7
2411 11
23191 11
3008 11
3106 12
110031 1
110031 1
110030 1
110017 1
110014 1
110008 1
110004 1
110007 2
110035 4
110020 4
110003 4
110036 10
110019 11
110015 21
AFAIK, you cannot put 2 series onto the x axis.
You have 2 alternate ways to solve your problem:
Concatenate each positional pair into a new column and use this as the x-axis label series. It will look like this:
You could use data labels for each series. However, this will add the data to the columns themselves and not the axis (you could put it at the base of the column). To do so, you will need to right click on the graph, select 'Add Data Labels'. By default it adds the value as the label, but you can select the labels, right click to format the data labels and use the 'values from cells' option. Once you do this and play around with the orientation and location of the labels, it will look like this:
For simplicity, I'd go with the first method
Adding a 3rd option; simply put the columns for the axis labels beside each other and when selecting the Data for the Axis Labels, just select both columns instead of the usual 1. It will look like this:
Related
I have the following simple Excel table:
A B C D E F
1 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2 2.500 1.000 3.000 4.000
3
Based on this data I created a bar chart looking like this:
All this works fine so far.
Now I want to hide the text labels of the X-Axis.
Therefore I tried this:
Step 1: Click on Format Axis
Step 2: Click on Number
Step 3: Go to Custom
Step 4: Add ;;; into line Format Code
However, this only works if the labels of the X-Axis are numbers.
In my case they are text.
Do you have any idea how I can hide text labels of the X-Axis without deleting the X-Axis itself?
When formatting the axis, just set the Axis Labels dropdown to None.
If I have a data :
year Total Balance subset 1 subset 2
1 100 50 20
2 300 200 175
3 200 65 35
4 50 25 5
Can i have a stacked column graph with "year" on X-Axis and the Y-Axis should be the balances- maximum being Total Balance and subset 1 and subset 2 be stacked within the Total Balance?
No direct way, however by transforming your values you can do it:
insert new columns with formula: =C2*$B2/SUM($C2:$D2)
insert your chart based on the new columns
Yes, assuming I got right what you need: insert the graph manually, and select your year values on the axis labels box (right side) and add each column (Total Balance, subset 1, subset 2) individually on the left side box.
Here's what I got
And here's my 'Select data' windows (sorry it's in portuguese)
I have been trying to create a windrose that displays the occurence of multiple wind speeds and their respective wind direction. Using other very helpful posts on here I've gotten pretty close to what I want. There is just one thing I can't seem to fix.
As you can see in the figure below the graph starts at 0 degrees while I want the "North" wind direction to start at -11,25 (or +348,75) degrees.
Currently the radial axis labels are added using a pie chart while the rest of the data is plotted in a filled radar chart. It is easy to rotate the pie chart but I can't seem to find a similar function for rotating the radar chart. Any help would be much appreciated. The excel file is attached beneath the figure.
EDIT: Locked excel file against editing
Excel file
I haven't fully digested the netiquette of this website and not sure if it is a good idea to try giving you an answer 6+ months after you posted. Also hope that by this time you found an answer.
If not, this link should be of help:
https://superuser.com/questions/687036/how-to-make-a-pie-radar-chart
In the example the creator made one field for each degree and started the first series, which would be equivalent to your north at 0°. However nothing prevents you from starting at 348.
I have not tested but I also think that nothing prevents you from adding even more "resolution", e.g. half-degree steps.. or even more to your discretion.
EDIT: following L.Guthardt's feedback.
In order to provide you an answer I opted to simplify your table and chart. Mostly for convenience, but also because I struggle to get a full understanding of the original "architecture". Still, the solution should work at any level and is based on two key elements:
first you will have to double the number of rows from 16 to 32 (thus each quadrant being repeated two times, e.g. ... nne - nne - ne - ne...)
second, you have to start and finish with N as showcased here
Direction Cat6
N 6
NNE 4 4
NNE 6
NE 4 4
NE 6
ENE 4 4
ENE 6
E 4 4
E 6
ESE 4 4
ESE 6
SE 4 4
SE 6
SSE 4 4
SSE 6
S 4 4
S 6
SSW 4 4
SSW 6
SW 4 4
SW 6
WSW 4 4
WSW 6
W 4 4
W 6
WNW 4 4
WNW 6
NW 4 4
NW 6
NNW 4 4
NNW 6
N 4 4
which will generate
for the pie chart I used a separate range with alternate gaps in the labels
Direction Dummy
N 1
1
NNE 1
1
NE 1
1
ENE 1
1
E 1
1
ESE 1
1
SE 1
1
SSE 1
1
S 1
1
SSW 1
1
SW 1
1
WSW 1
1
W 1
1
WNW 1
1
NW 1
1
NNW 1
1
Rotating radar charts in Excel can be achieved by building a separate table for plotting the chart. It would have three columns:
Column A: New categories
Column B: Original categories (calculated from A)
Column C: Original data using VLOOKUP() on B
The chart will be plotted using columns B and C. Column B category numbers are offset by the desired number of categories.
If the chart needs to be rotated by other than multiples of a category degree (e.g., 30 degrees for 12 categories), you would need to add rows in between (corresponding to the amount of rotation in relation to the category degree). For example, to rotate a 12-category radar chart by multiples of 15 degrees, one extra row is needed in-between each original category row (to create 24 new categories). In this case, you would need to calculate the intermediate values by linearly interpolating between actual data points.
The trick is that blank category values are not displayed on the chart and the values for these categories blend in smoothly with the real data (because they are interpolated).
I will post an example if the above is not clear enough.
P.S. I cannot look at your new Excel file (in Answers) because it exceeds 5 MB (see screenshot 1).
So I did keep working on this problem and the best solution I've come up with (while using Microsoft Excel) looks as follows:
Currently, the number of sectors in the plot is fixed at 16. If I want to make this number variable, the table required for the plot data requires a very large amount of lookup functions which make the spreadsheet too slow to work with.
I've uploaded the new Excel file here to take a look at:
Excel file
I have data like the following:
x y f
1 1 1.2
1 2 1.4
1 3 1.6
3 1 3.2
3 2 3.4
3 3 3.6
5 1 5.2
5 2 5.4
5 3 5.6
If you insert a pivot chart, you can plot f vs x and y using a line chart, and the plot has two stacked x-axes where the lower x-axes values are 1 3 5 corresponding to x, and the upper x-axes has values 1 2 3 for each value of the lower x-axes, representing x = 1 and y = 1 2 3, then x = 2 and y = 1 2 3, and x = 3 and y = 1 2 3. The plot should show a single continuous line from left to right. What I would like is for the line to break when x changes values, so there are three short lines showing the influence of y for constant values of x.
This link makes a chart similar to what I'm describing in the answer. In terms of that figure, what I want is for the link to break every time the year changes. But the answer they have, and discussion doesn't get what I'm looking for. The only approach that I can think of is to modify the PivotTable data by hand and add a row at the location the data breaks. I tried to do something like that at work, but before modifying the table, I copied the table as values to a separate location. With the new data table, I was not able to create the plot with two x axis. If I created the plot, I could put a second value in when y = 3, and for f have NA(), which should create the break in the proper location.
For something that looks like:
Select each of the second and subsequent y 1 values (individually):
and Format Data Point..., Line, No line.
(BTW IMO better suited to Super User.)
I am doing a project that requires me to study the several condition that affect GPS accuracy, and after I collected a set of data and dumped it to Excel, I was trying to plot a scatter graph, grouping the data into different series according to a value: in this case, I wanted to plot the Latitude and Longitude values as the XY scatter values, and separate the series by the number of satellites when the fix was obtained.
Timestamp Latitude Longitude #Satellites
133009.279 3839.3354 904.7395 0
133010.279 3839.3354 904.7395 0
133011.279 3839.3354 904.7395 0
133026 3845.9863 907.4513 4
133027 3845.986 907.4491 4
133028 3845.9851 907.448 4
133222 3845.9909 907.4866 4
133023.28 3845.9817 907.4429 5
133024.28 3845.9867 907.4549 5
133048 3845.9868 907.452 5
133205 3845.9929 907.4858 5
133206 3845.9927 907.486 5
133207 3845.9925 907.4862 5
133056 3845.9885 907.4569 6
133057 3845.9881 907.4578 6
133223 3845.9905 907.4868 6
133224 3845.9901 907.487 6
I have tried selecting the three rows, adding the series afterwards by selecting the appropriate row, and even tried pivot tables, but these don't allow for scatter-plots unfortunately.
All this to no avail, but I am positive that you can plot the graph. Does anyone have an idea?
PS: Manually selecting the series myself isn't an option, since there is a large number of data. If I could select all of the data for one specific value in a row, though, would let my select each series, and I think I would be able to make it from there.
Have a look at the XY charts from FusionCharts XT - http://www.fusioncharts.com/demos/gallery/#bubble-and-xycharts