How to Make a Soda Chart
Here's an example of a real-world problem. In a deprived inner city borough of the U.K. with the usual range of problems — drugs, gangs, gun and knife crime, alcohol-fueled…
Here's an example of a real-world problem. In a deprived inner city borough of the U.K. with the usual range of problems — drugs, gangs, gun and knife crime, alcohol-fueled…
Funnel Plots for Fair Comparisons by Stephen Few and Katherine Rowell Central to quantitative data analysis is an understanding of variation. When we measure multiple occurrences of things to determine…
I recently got to glimpse what a jet-setter's life might be like when I went to Niagara Falls, Canada, for less than a day (in and out in about eight…
This type of chart is often used when a few data points greatly exceed the others. When plotted on a standard chart the other values are dwarfed. The chart actually…
A Gantt chart for repeated tasks consists of a bar chart series showing the duration of a task, stacked on a transparent bar that pushes the visible bar out to…
A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart often used in project management applications. The attached Excel workbook shows a Gantt chart set up to depict the schedule for a…
A table lens display provides a way to view potential correlations between several quantitative variables simultaneously. Step 1. Enter the labels for the data set in column A. See attached…
A Dot Plot is a graphing utility showing the frequency of different pieces of data in a set. It is extremely effective for showing categorical data. Dot plots can be…
A histogram is a distribution graph that allows you to see how several measurements fall within set ranges, or bins, of the dependent variable. A histogram is usually depicted as…
Data for example: The values in a chart are linked to the worksheet data from which the chart is created. To make changes to the data plotted in the existing…