Archive for 'Dynamic Charts'
Dynamic Chart with Multiple Series
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
On my web site and blog, I have over a dozen pages that talk about dynamic charts. A partial list of these articles is provided at the end of this post.
I was asked to expand on one of my examples, specifically to show a dynamic chart with multiple dynamic series.
I made up the following data [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 10th, 2009 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 18
Dynamic Chart Review
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
My colleague and fellow MVP Debra Dalgleish shows a dynamic chart approach that lets you Select Excel Chart Dates From a Drop Down List.
Debra has provided her usual comprehensive step-by-step instructions and an example workbook you can download. Her example was done in Excel 2007, but it works as well in previous versions.
Posted: Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 1
Interactive Charts with Checkboxes and Formulas
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
An interactive dashboard by definition includes mechanisms for users to control aspects of the display. There are many ways to accomplish this. In Interactive Charting by Combo Box or Checkbox I wrote about using checkboxes to do this. That used a very simple example, which I will explore further in this article.
There are a couple of [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 10
Accordion Chart for Jorge
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Jorge Camoes wrote in Focus + Context (a Bar Chart Is Not a Skyscraper) that tall bar charts are a waste of space. If you plan to show everything (say, all fifty state names), you may as well just use a table. I’m not sure I completely agree, but part of his point is that [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 12th, 2009 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 21
Gapminder For Excel II
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
A few months ago in Gapminder for Excel I made a simplistic mockup of Hans Rosling’s Gapminder presentation Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen in Excel. It was fairly simple, with a single bubble marching across a chart, interpolating between yearly data points as a simple timer-based VBA procedure incremented.
An astute [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 8
Display One Chart Dynamically and Interactively
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Once again, I rely on Chandoo for inspiration for a charting tutorial. In Select and Show One Chart from Many he shows how to let a user choose which of several charts to show, in an interactive display. He uses data validation to enable the user to select from a finite list of charts, and [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 6th, 2008 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 19
Ballistics Animation
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
I’ve done a handful of animations lately:
Gas Prices – Animated Bar Chart for Excel
Gas Prices – Animated Bar Chart for Excel 2
Gapminder for Excel
Rolling Wheel Animation
This example shows the position and path of a moving projectile which is launched at a given velocity and angle. The math is high school physics, with a little calculus [...]
Posted: Sunday, August 24th, 2008 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 1
Presidential Demographics
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
In Presidential Demographics, Part II, Robert Kosara has posted a very nice interactive infographic that allows you to answer a host of questions about US presidents:
Would McCain be the oldest US President? Would Obama be the youngest? Who was the youngest president? Were presidents younger in the past or older? What is the highest number [...]
Posted: Sunday, August 24th, 2008 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 4
Rolling Wheel Animation
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
A college science professor named Roger Blickensderfer wrote to me about an animation he was working on. He wanted to trace the path followed by a point on the rim of a rolling wheel. Roger had cobbled something together, and I fiddled with it, and it kind of worked. But I decided I wanted it [...]
Posted: Sunday, August 17th, 2008 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 11
Gas Prices – Interactive Time Series
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
In Watch the Rise of Gasoline Retail Prices, 1993 – 2008, Nathan shows an animated bar chart that traces the price of gasoline over the past 15 years. A number of readers responded with links to assorted time series.
I downloaded Nathan’s data workbook and duplicated Nathan’s animated bar chart in Excel in Gas Prices – [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 under Dynamic Charts.
Comments: 11
















