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...
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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.
Sorry about the title, it was hard to figure out how to word this. So, my main problem is a Total Count column represent the overall quantity, but the other columns are PART of a Total Count column. This wouldn't be so bad except the other columns may be part of each other too. Meaning, for like 11/26/18... the Total Count column is ALL of the Item Count, but some of the other ones may be in New PR Count too, but not necessarily all. Same thing with Dropped Outside LT and Dropped Late columns. They are all part of the Total Count column but all are not necessarily separate.
I feel nothing short of a bunch of complex formulae or macros will fix this so, what is my best option to show at least the individual counts? I was thinking to have the Total Count column as a Clustered Column chart type, the other columns as a Stacked Column and the 2 lines as is. Or all columns just be Clustered Columns and lines as is. What do you all think would best show this data?
So sadly, due to proprietary, I am told at work not to upload an image of the chart. FUN. So, here is what I have..
7 Series - 5 Series are Stacked Columns in Primary Axis, 2 Series are Line with Markers in Secondary Axis. Each column is for a single week's entry of data (so based around a Date entry.
The two Line with Markers are percentages (Secondary Vertical (Value) Axis) on right side of chart. On left side is Total Count (Verical (Value) Axis) basically showing a Count being connected to the Total Count column.
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.
I am working on Microsoft Excel 2013 scatter plots and I'd like to know if there is a more productive way to do this:
Let's say I have a big database with several columns and rows, i.e:
A B C D
1 Length Width Volume Area
2 2 1 8 4
3 3 2 7 1
4 1 5 3 5
5 7 3 12 6
I create a scatter plot for Volume vs Length. After, I want to create another scatter plot for Area vs Width. As I have a lot of rows and columns, I copy the first plot and then, in select data, I change the range of data (A to B and C to D). Is there an efficient way to do this? (shortcuts with arrows keys, maybe? I didn't find them) or Do I have to change the letters manually?
Thank you.
J.
If this is a repetitive task in the sense that every say Friday you create the same 4 graphs based on new information in the same columns then you could record a macro of what you are doing and associate it with keyboard short cuts.
You can do the same thing with updating the graph information but it starts getting a little more complex when you start changing which column number you want as the series. But its definitely possible. I would recommend recording a macro of you editing the 2-3 graphs so we can sheet patterns and we can probably help you edit the macro.
Now something simpler that may, and I stress may, suit your needs. Select A1 to D5, then insert you XY scatter plot. You X axis which should be common to all needs to be in the left most column. When you go to edit your source data you should see each series listed. You can simply check and uncheck which series you would like to have active. the ones with a check mark will display. If you needed three graphs at the same time, you could then copy and paste the graphs twice and set up each one to your desire without having to reselect the data range, you would just check/uncheck which series to display