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.
My Data looks like this:
||UNIQUE_KEY||LABEL1||LABEL2||START_DATE||END_DATE||
What I'd like to do is have 2 stacked area charts that show totals (count of UNIQUE_KEY), one chart for LABEL1 values & another for LABEL2values over time.
X axis would be Number, Y would be time. Charts would show a count of UNIQUE_KEY for each of the possible LABEL# values at each point in time.
I am at a loss how to translate the Start Date and End Dates into a framework so that excel considers that Issue open at that point in time for the dates that fall in between Start and End date.
I can think of ways to do it that are really ugly and I have to know id there's a slick way to get what I want.
Thanks!
edit... here's a snippet of the data (comma delimited) - and I refined my explanation above
Issue key,Issue Type,Work Type,Created,Resolved
SA-17070,Maintenance,PS_SYSTEM,7/7/2014,8/29/2014
SA-17006,Production Incident,PACKAGING,6/30/2014,8/29/2014
SA-23110,Production Incident,BUSINESS_PROCESS,8/1/2016,9/12/2016
SA-22628,Enhancement,BUSINESS_PROCESS,5/23/2016,8/25/2016
SA-16073,Maintenance,BUNDLE,4/17/2014,5/16/2014
SA-15625,Maintenance,BUNDLE,3/6/2014,3/14/2014
SA-17008,Maintenance,BUNDLE,6/30/2014,7/3/2014
SA-17062,Maintenance,BUNDLE,7/3/2014,7/7/2014
SA-16922,Maintenance,BUNDLE,6/19/2014,7/7/2014
SA-16913,Maintenance,BUNDLE,6/18/2014,7/7/2014
SA-17064,Maintenance,BUNDLE,7/7/2014,7/8/2014
SA-16956,Maintenance,BUNDLE,6/24/2014,7/28/2014
SA-17172,Maintenance,BUNDLE,7/15/2014,8/29/2014
SA-17349,Production Incident,BUNDLE,8/4/2014,8/7/2014
SA-19038,Configuration,BUNDLE,2/16/2015,2/19/2015
SA-19011,Maintenance,BUNDLE,2/12/2015,2/16/2015
SA-19298,Maintenance,BUNDLE,3/12/2015,3/23/2015
SA-19065,Production Incident,BUNDLE,2/18/2015,3/23/2015
SA-19235,Production Incident,BUNDLE,3/9/2015,4/30/2015
SA-20192,Maintenance,BUNDLE,7/13/2015,7/15/2015
SA-21317,Maintenance,BUNDLE,11/19/2015,12/2/2015
SA-21169,Maintenance,BUNDLE,11/3/2015,2/1/2016
SA-21283,Production Incident,BUNDLE,11/17/2015,12/11/2015
SA-21329,Production Incident,BUNDLE,11/19/2015,1/4/2016
SA-23487,Maintenance,BUNDLE,9/12/2016,10/25/2016
SA-23356,Maintenance,BUNDLE,8/29/2016,10/25/2016
SA-23443,Production Incident,BUNDLE,9/7/2016,9/9/2016
SA-23589,Production Incident,BUNDLE,9/24/2016,9/24/2016
SA-23931,Enhancement,BUNDLE,11/21/2016,12/2/2016
SA-17356,Configuration,PS_SYSTEM,8/4/2014,10/7/2014
This is not exactly what you described. This shows dates an issue is open on the Y-Axis, versus the issue number on the X-Axis. I know you want something different on the X-Axis, but it is unclear how you want this to map to the Y-Axis. (e.g. maximum Resolved time - minimum Created time?, duration of latest issue?)
Note: You could do the following once for each Issue Type, once for each Work Type.
To create a chart showing duration an issue is open, where duration is on the Y-axis and the issue "key" is on the X-axis ...
Add a column to your data that is Duration. It is Resolved - Created.
Select the Issue Key Column, Created Column, and the Duration column.
Insert a Stacked Column Chart.
Select the Resolved series and format. Set the fill color and line color to None.
Select the Y-axis and format the axis. Adjust the lower limit to something you want. Change the number format to Date.
I have a long list of dates (about 2000) in an excel spreadsheet and I want to see how many of these dates lie within particular years (and roughly which part of the year also if possible). I know how to make basic graphs in excel, but I'm not sure how to make a bar graph that uses dates. Any suggestions?
I can obviously split events in day, month, and year and then use count to count the amount of each year, but this would not show the placement of the event within the year in the final graph.
20/03/2000
2/04/2000
3/04/2000
26/05/2000
7/06/2000
20/06/2000
22/06/2000
10/07/2000
12/07/2000
22/07/2000
2/08/2000
8/08/2000
11/08/2000
14/08/2000
15/08/2000
12/09/2000
15/09/2000
20/09/2000
25/09/2000
2/10/2000
22/10/2000
24/10/2000
25/10/2000
27/10/2000
1/11/2000
10/11/2000
13/11/2000
16/11/2000
18/11/2000
20/11/2000
25/11/2000
27/11/2000
3/12/2000
6/12/2000
20/12/2000
21/12/2000
22/12/2000
4/01/2001
7/01/2001
11/01/2001
24/01/2001
25/01/2001
2/02/2001
4/02/2001
9/02/2001
12/02/2001
13/02/2001
20/02/2001
21/02/2001
2/03/2001
11/04/2001
19/04/2001
20/04/2001
21/04/2001
24/04/2001
27/04/2001
28/04/2001
2/05/2001
3/05/2001
5/05/2001
12/05/2001
13/06/2001
20/06/2001
25/06/2001
3/07/2001
5/07/2001
18/07/2001
20/07/2001
21/07/2001
22/07/2001
25/07/2001
4/08/2001
5/08/2001
9/08/2001
10/08/2001
11/08/2001
12/08/2001
13/08/2001
31/08/2001
11/09/2001
12/09/2001
17/09/2001
3/10/2001
10/10/2001
18/10/2001
21/10/2001
23/10/2001
4/11/2001
5/11/2001
17/11/2001
22/11/2001
23/11/2001
27/11/2001
29/11/2001
3/12/2001
I cannot check this in earlier versions of Excel, but in Excel 2016, if you build a Pivot Table with your data and drop the date in the Rows - you get your data grouped in Years, Quarters, and Months. If you also drop the date into Values, then you get the Count of values in each year, quarter, and month.
Then a pivot chart looks like this ...
A less magical way to do it
Applies to Excel 2013 and up
From your single column of dates, build a pivot table.
Put the date in Rows. Put Count of date in Values.
Select any one of the dates. Right Click and choose "Group...", or choose "Group Selection" from the Analyze ribbon.
Click on each of Months, Quarters, and Years.
Filter how you would like.
Select PivotChart from the Analyze Ribbon.
You can create a scatter graph as suggested in the comment. Consider your data set and see if there is any other quality that could be added to the chart, which could be plotted on the value axis. For example the number of people attending the event, or the duration of the event in seconds, or something like that, so that the graph contains more information. In the following screenshot, the blue dots are just the 1's from column B plotted on the time line. The orange dots plot another data aspect on the vertical axis.
If you create a pivot table of the dates and drag the date into the Sums area you will get a count of each day, make sure this is sorted. Then a chart will show the number of records for each day. You will need to copy and past values from the pivot to a new sheet to be able to make a scatter diagram from the output of the pivot table (in Excel 2010). But once it is a scatter diagram the events will be in the "correct" places.
If you wanted to group it by month instead you could use a formula to create a column of year & month and then do the pivot and chart on that column. For example the formula below will give you 201605 for May 2016.
=YEAR(A2)&RIGHT(100+MONTH(A2),2)
Weeks would be a bit trickier, but I suppose you could divide the date by seven and then INT it to get a 7 day grouping. These wont show the actual events occurance within the period but would let you see which periods have the most events.If you are looking for things like more events at the beginning of the month or something you might need to try different "groupings" like weekly.
So,
I cannot find a solution.
I have a very large file with timesteps from 1950 to 1970, daily.
I want to plot the date on the x axis with its values on the y axis.
So I marked my values with the dates, clicked on "Insert" and then "PivotChart" and everything looks fine.
I want to define the timesteps shown on the x-Axis (Just every second year i.e.) but it seems that the PivotChart does not recognize that my x-Axis values are dates.
Any Ideas how I can change that?!
Thanks a lot!
I don't think you can use a Pivot Chart according to the Display dates on a category axis article at support.office.com.
I suppose you'll need to use a Line chart if you want to display by every two years.
You can also group the data in the Pivot Table, which will cause a corresponding change in the Pivot Chart. In Excel 2007, that was limited to every year -- without an option for multiple years (as there is for days). But perhaps that has changed in later versions?
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.