Cascade Chart Utility Joins the Team
by Jon Peltier
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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The family of PTS Excel Charting Utilities has welcomed a new member: The PTS Cascade Chart Utility. Many customers of other utilities have asked about this type of chart, and I have answered with a new program. A cascade chart shows one value vertically (e.g., revenue) against a cumulative value horizontally (e.g., market segment size).
Usually the data is sorted in decreasing order of the vertical value. The chart can be filled in (above) or shown in outline only (below).
Multiple series can be stacked with unique fill colors…
… or stacked unfilled with unique line colors.
The data can even include positive and negative values.
The utility was delayed several weeks because of an unexpected incompatibility in Excel 2007. But the new workaround has been tested, and it’s ready to go.
For information, visit the PTS Cascade Chart Utility page. Details about installation and use of the utility can be found at the Cascade Chart documentation page.
The utility is priced at $29 US until Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26, 2009). After that it will be priced at $39 US.
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- Introducing PTS Dot Plot Utility
- Variable Width Column Charts (Cascade Charts)
- Waterfall Chart Utility
- Charting Utility Upgrades
- State of the Blog – Year End 2009
- PTS Charts in Excel 2010
- Order of Legend Entries in Excel Charts
- Clustered-Stacked Column Chart Utility
- Announcing the Box and Whisker Chart Utility
- Hide Series Data Label if Value is Zero
Posted: Monday, November 2nd, 2009 under Utilities.
Comments: 4
Comments
Comment from Debra Dalgleish
Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 1:06 am
Congratulations on the new addition! Soon you’ll need a bigger house.
Comment from jeff weir
Time: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6:25 pm
Cool. This would have saved me significant time when I produced the histograms with uneven ‘buckets’ in the post I did on Chandoos blog at http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/07/24/medicare-chart-critique.
Comment from Chandoo
Time: Monday, November 2, 2009, 12:28 pm
Hey Jon.. good addition this. All the best :)
Comment from Training Connection
Time: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 5:36 pm
This is very impressive, especially the unique unfilled color lines. Very clean.
Billy Gee
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