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1. SCATTER CHART EXCEL USE NUMBERS RATHER THAN DOTS SERIES
2. SCATTER CHART EXCEL USE NUMBERS RATHER THAN DOTS DOWNLOAD

The biggest advantage a dot plot has over a bar chart is that values are indicated by position rather than length, so we don’t necessarily need a zero-baseline.

SCATTER CHART EXCEL USE NUMBERS RATHER THAN DOTS DOWNLOAD

I will explain how this is done and you can download the Dot Plot Example file to see how I created the dot plots on this page.

The trick is to use the REPT() function to display the dot plot either horizontally or vertically. As a reminder, the XY chart labeler is not part of Excel. A Dot Plot or Dot Chart is one of the most simple types of plots and they are very easy to create in Excel without having to use a Chart object. This frees it up to be used with categorical levels, rather than a continuous progression. Unfortunately, bubble charts and scatter plots only allow numbers for the X- and Y-coordinates.

SCATTER CHART EXCEL USE NUMBERS RATHER THAN DOTS SERIES

When I hover over the point it will say Series 1 Point "48" and then it will give the position of the point as (33,420). A dot plot is essentially a line plot without line segments connecting each point. A bubble chart is a type of scatter plot in which the data are plotted as bubbles of varying sizes, rather than as points. For example, I may be trying to plot the point (48,420)īut it will show up at point 33 on the X axis because it is the 33rd item in the column. choice when you have time data where the points are not at fixed intervals. When I look at my graph however, the points are in the wrong spot. Excel tricksters use scatter charts because they solve a number of problem. Just to clarify, when I enter the data under select data the correct values can be seen in the "Horizontal (Category) Axis Label" column. Instead of a number for example? I can see why it would plot the values in the order they appear in the column if it thought they were text strings. If you are using a logarithmic axis, instead of adding to x or y, youll need to multiply the x or y value by a number to shift the labels a consistent amount. I am copying the information over from pivot tables in microsoft access, could that be causing a problem in the format of the data causing excel to misinterpret it as a text string I copy them? If I type out a smaller series by hand it works with 2 columns.

I think perhaps the problem is that the numbers are not necessarily transferring as "numbers" when I was merely explaining what happens with the line plot to give more information about what was going on with my excel.