In Excel 2010 is it possible to have X and Y categories in a scatter/line graph?
An example would be Simple, Intermediate, Complex on the X axis and Low, Medium, High on the Y axis and three markers in the plot area corresponding to Simple/Low, Intermediate/Medium and Complex/High.
Thanks.
You have to get some numbers in your dataset. A scatter between to categories is in my opinion can't be plotted and also it doesn't have any utility as such.
You can have your categories on one axis (Say X) and some values in another axis( Say Y), then you can plot the graph.
Your categories should be unique for scatters, if a single category comes more than once excel will auto change the categories to number from 1, 2, 3, ....
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I am looking to plotting a car variant price comparison chart where the chart Y axis would be amount currency.
X Axis would be different car brands like Honda Hyundai, Toyota etc.
My plot would be the price for each car variant from low to high As per this image
Note:
Number of variants in the brands may be different so that way the series in the plots will be different in length/size.
I have the following Graph: The Y values are located at X= 32,64,128,256, 512 and 1024. However, the graph shows different values. I would like to show for X-axis labels only the relevant values (i.e.32,64,128,256, 512 and 1024).
In addition, I would like to add the maximal value of 1 to Y-axis. As can be seen I defined the maximal value to be 1 but the graph doesn't show it.
How can I fix these 2 issues both in X-axis and in Y-axis?
For the X-axis: tick the check box "Logarithmic scale" and set the Base to 2.
For the Y-axis: set the Minimum to a value that is divisible by the Major unit 0.1, for example to 0.4.
Thanks to Hans Vogelaar (http://www.eileenslounge.com) for the answer.
I have a a column of data which tells me the outcome after a roll of the dice.
In Excel how do I plot a graph which shows frequency of the outcomes on the y axis and numbers between 1 and 6 on the x axis?
Use a pivot table to create this graph.
Insert tab > PivotTable
Row Labels (lower left box) should be the dice roll value. Values (lower right box) should be the count of the dice roll value. Lastly create a bar chart from the pivot table.
Fro example I have in X axis names in Y axe age , how to change axis place that in X axis will be age and in Y axis names. Solution with change data place is not good, because If I names is 1 row and age 2 I can't change places axes.
select column with Y values
create diagramm
in diagramm options choose "add data" and select column for x values
trying to make line chart using data
X Y
1 12
3 34
5 56
6 68
9 79
14 98
is it possible to make different spacec on the horrizontal axis?
because now there are same between 1 and 3, 9 and 14 etc..
As Tim Williams stated in his comment, which he should have made into a full-fledged answer:
Use an Excel XY (Scatter) chart. A line chart treats X values as non-numeric labels, while the XY chart treats both X and Y as continuous numeric variables. The lines and markers in XY and Line charts can be formatted the same.
To create a bar chart with differently spaced bars, insert empty rows between your x, y pairs so that the spacing of the data in the rows reflects the distance between the x points. For example, if the [1, 12] pair is in cells A1:B1, place the [3, 34] pair two rows down, in cells A3:B3; [5, 56] would go in A5:B5, etc.
This may produce bars that look too narrow. You can increase the width of bars by first left-clicking on one of the bars to select them all, and then right-clicking and selecting Format Data Series. The second slider in Series Options will change the bar width for the chart.