Software: MS Excel 2016
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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.
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I am trying to make a bar chart with X- axis showing timeline with respect to months (Jan, Feb, March etc). On Y-axis, I want to count how many [KRI] are there in each month based on their [Status Category]?
I have two conditions though:
1) If [Status Category] is 'Final', count that KRI in all months between [TRIGGERDATE] month and [statchedate]. for example, same KRI should be counted in Jan, and Feb and March etc (from time it was open till the time/month it was closed).
2) If [Status Category] is NOT Final, count that KRI in all months between [TRIGGERDATE] month and today's month.
In the picture below with the data sample, the pink colored blocks shows when the KRI should NOT be counted in that particular month.
I am trying to write a custom expression using if statement, but I am not able to figure out how would spotfire know that a KRI should be counted between [Triggerdate] and [Statchedate]? Or for instance, between [Triggerdate] and [today]
I am also thinking about adding a calculated column that will determine if the KRI should be counted in how many months? (but this will be ongoing data, so I am afraid that my column would keep on expanding..)
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated :)
I'm trying to find a trend projection that compares between same week of 2 consecutive years and also from previous weeks of a particular year. What is the excel formula that helps me to do this?
I need to find the projected values for week 15 all the way to week 53 for This year, based on
The previous weeks of This year (Week 1- Week 14) as well as
The same week Last year (Week 15)
You could use the Trend function, setting Known X's to Last Year weeks 1 to 14 and Known Y's to This Year weeks 1 to 14.
Then set the New X's to the same week for last year and the function will use the Least Squares method to extrapolate for this year.
If you use absolute references (e.g. $A$1:$A$10) for the Known X's and Y's, and a relative reference for the New X's, then you can just copy/paste the formula from This Year week 15 down.
Keep in mind though that the further you get from the Known values, the less accurate the forecast becomes...
Are you familiar with the add-in solver or Data Analysis? Sometimes you have to unhide it by going to options>add-in>"Data Analysis" to use it but it does simple analyses. You will find several helpful tools for doing stats in "Data Analysis."
I have two sets (August and February) of SCADA data that contain a time stamp and a tank level. The tank level is on the y axis, and the date/time on the x axis. I am trying to display this as a smooth line, scatter plot. The February data displays correctly in the chart, but the August data does not. It looks very irregular, and it shows an odd date range (from January of 1900 to March of 1934!). The odd thing as that the data looks the same; although the August data doesn't appear to automatically assign AM/PM to the time stamp. Any help would be much appreciated.
I have a set of dates and matching numbers in excel, one number for every month in 2013. I need to display these numbers with the dae on the X-axis in a simple line graph. I am mainly intereseted in the number for the last month but also the historical numbers.
It is to crowded on the X-axis to show every single month so I only show every other month. This is easily done by right clicking the axis etc.
Now, since the last month is the most important one I would like to show that month (2013-12) and every other month backwards.
The axis should look something like this:
2013-02, 2013-04, 2013-06, 2013-08, 2013-10, 2013-12
But no matter how I change in excel I end up with this:
2013-01, 2013-03, 2013-05, 2013-07, 2013-09, 2013-11
Since the last month (december) is the most important one I would say it is logical to display that month.
The only way I can get it working is by dropping the first observation which I don't want to do.
Any suggestions how I can et this working in excel?
You have a "fencepost problem". You want to display 12 values, but if you want to display every second one, either you take all the odd numbers (in which case december is hidden) or all the even ones (which hides january)
If you're okay with hiding january, then add a dummy month at the beginning of your series, and give it the value:
=na()
Excel will allot it space but will not give it a point on the graph.
Alternately, if your axis is too crowded, turn the label text sideways or put the year 2013 in the title and only put the months on the x axis (1, 2, 3, ..., 12)
In Mac Excel 2011 I have a Scrum burndown chart that tracks the number of points ‘burnt’ per day (starting from say 100, hopefully burning down to 0).
The number of points per day is made up of a sum of X number of columns (tasks).
I then have a marked line graph which takes it’s Y value data from the summed points per day.
My issue is that the marked line graph will always display 5 work days worth of burn, even though we might be on Tuesday.
I need a solution that means I don’t have to manually update the graph y value each day (adding it), instead the graph knows it is Wednesday, and selects data up to Wednesday.
Do you want to show the days for the whole week? (probably, since a 1 or 2 day chart early in the week will look funny.) Are the Y values linked from another cell?
If so, change your links from
=A1
to
=IF(LEN(A1)=0,NA(),A1)
NA() produces #N/A in the cell, which isn't plotted.