Category: Charting

Building a Box and Whisker Plot in Excel

Introduction I’m a big fan of building Box and Whisker plots (also known as Box plots to those in the statistics world) to interpret certain data sets. While I tend to use these for charting Power Query refresh times, they

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Temperature Forecast Chart

Some of the really cool charts that we can build in Excel involve the trick of combining multiple chart types together to make them happen. In this article, we’ll build one of those; a temperature chart that not only shows

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VLOOKUP for Pictures

Something that can be very handy when you’re building a dashboard is to return a certain picture depending on a condition. We can use VLOOKUP to look up data in a table and return the corresponding value from a different

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Data Labels on Chart Series

Since I know I have a few charting guys that follow this, I figured that I'd ask this question here. Hopefully the response will help someone! I'm creating a food & beverage function evaluation form, and threw a chart on

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Pie Chart of Daylight Hours

I came across this a while ago in a weather app on my iPhone, and thought it was interesting. Then there was a conversation on Twitter in which I brought it up as well. I'm not a huge fan of

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Actual Charts vs Images

In a blog post last week, I was looking at the image formats to use when I snapped a picture of a chart. I'm kind of glad that Jon agreed with my assessment on EMF being the best image format

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