Comments on: Gas Prices – Animated Bar Chart for Excel 2

By: DaleW

DaleW — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:56:05 +0000

Jon – Nice animation. Yes, your interactive time series chart is a much more efficient way to look at the data.

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By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:57:28 +0000

Dermot - I showed the data in an intereactive time-series in Gas Prices - Interactive Time Series.

By: Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:26:23 +0000

Excellent stuff, Jon. The line chart animation is really nice. But, as dermot says, and you probably agree, in the end, the line chart alone is the best way to show this data!

Thanks for showing a nice way to make this visualisation in Excel, though. Very useful.

Andy

By: dermot

dermot — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:26:41 +0000

Jon

I know you set out to reproduce the animation, but I think there are better ways to show this data.

I would average the data over periods of 3-6 months and show all the lines and dates on the same (static) chart, perhaps allowing the user to pick one series to highlight.

As it is, it takes far too long to run through all the weeks and all the patterns are lost.