Comments on: Easier Interactive Multiple Line Chart

By: Alex Kerin

Alex Kerin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:03 +0000

Very nice – love the simplicity of this method. Thanks for your continued efforts.

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By: Colin Banfield

Colin Banfield — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:34:33 +0000

Alvaro’s got a point – I was thinking the same thing when I read your original post. Incidentally, the Few article you mentioned shows an equally indecipherable background – a real distraction when you consider the efforts one take to tone down or eliminate gridlines. Now, there’s actually one useful application for such a jumble, and that is to filter out all but a few selected series for comparison!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:18:50 +0000

Alvaro – “Do as I say, don’t do as I do.”

In hindsight, I should have taken more time to find or create a better sample data set. Or I could have made this example with only three or four series instead of a dozen. Perhaps when I get a chance I should rewrite these examples with better illustrative data.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:14:33 +0000

Alvaro -

Oops! Thanks for pointing out my mistake. Both should be “TheSelection”. I’ve made the correction.

By: Alvaro Ledesma

Alvaro Ledesma — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:06:19 +0000

Jon, I am a bit curious: I am learnig about “keep it at the minimum” reading you, the guys at microchart and others in the field. With that in mind I really like tha idea of keeping, let’s say, 5 or 6 series in gray and the one being analized in color… it gives you a quick overview and provides background, reference and very brief “ranking” idea to begin with.

However, in your example, the gray lines are too many, so the only purpose I can see is a “background” based on data, with no analytical value (or very little value at most). Am I missing something?

Regards

Alvaro

By: Alvaro Ledesma

Alvaro Ledesma — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:52 +0000

Jon, in the “by row” example, the listbox format window shows as cell link “TheSelection” and the offset formula to capture the selected row data uses “TheSelected”.

Regards

Alvaro