Comments on: Re: Abortion Ratios 1980-2003

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:22:28 +0000

James -

Thanks for your opinion. However, this isn’t a political action kind of blog, so your protest is misplaced. In addition, you are misreading the chart: except for the under 15 age group, the numbers of abortions have been declining.

By: james

james — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:18:29 +0000

You stupid idiots need to do something about abortion. It needs to STOP NOW!
There are millions of young children and babies that could have a life and a future that never make it because of your women and their stupid decisions.
What about the stupid chart? Haven’t you noticed that the rate is going up and up each year? Every child deserves a life and to live and to be happy. You waste of time people just don’t care, those babies could be YOUR children those babies could be YOUR grand kids. C’MON from man to man, believe that we can change the future and we can change lives, let them live on. I just want you people to notice what is wrong here, and this is IT, this is wrong. Babies are a gift from god and i don’t think god appreciates the way we treat his children, these are little angels we’re killing HERE!
PLEASE, i’m begging for a change and i need your help!
thank you.

By: andar909

andar909 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:47:34 +0000

hi, andar here, i just read your post. i like very much. agree to you, sir.

By: Colin Banfield

Colin Banfield — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:40:09 +0000

Andreas – I’ve looked at XLCubed in the past with much envy and the VisualGrids are great. However, I provide solutions for small businesses (under 100 employees), most of whom don’t have OLAP servers. Also, when a company does not advertise pricing online it strikes fear in me. Having said that, I’ve recently downloaded an eval copy of XLCubded to take a closer look.

Jon – Great idea. Best of luck! Let’s see if you can get out of the gate before Microsoft :-)

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:56:09 +0000

Colin – Among the twelve gajillion items on my back burner is a utility to make panel charts such as the one in this article. Microsoft may not put everything into their products, but they did build in flexibility. I’ve used all manner of data sources in these charts, including pivot tables. The hard part is coding all the interaction I have with a chart before it’s “ready”.

Andreas – Sounds interesting. I’ll have to check it out.

By: Andreas Lipphardt

Andreas Lipphardt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:21:03 +0000

In fact, there is a new tool that brings multivariate visual data analytics into Excel, XLCubed. The new XLCubed release supports MicroCharts in XLCubed Grids (Grids are more or less PivotTables)
http://www.bonavistasystems.com/Images/SampleVisualGrids.PNG
http://www.bonavistasystems.com/NewsMicroCharts3.html

Its not supporting all kinds of trellis displays, like Tableau does, but Grids that enrich the numbers with MicroCharts definitely helps you to see trends and patterns you would miss with the regular PivotTable. I will blog a bit more the capabilities of the XLCubed the next days on

http://blog.xlcubed.com

By: Colin Banfield

Colin Banfield — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:16:38 +0000

In spite of the power of PivotTables, there is one major area that they fail completely i.e. multivariate data visual analytics. In other words, finding trends and patterns in multivariate data. Ok, well the problem lies with PivotCharts and not the PivotTables per se, but the two are synchronized at the hips. The answer of course are “panel” PivotCharts, like the one you show at the end of your post and the types you see in products like Tableau and Spotfire . However, I’m very pessimistic that Microsoft will ever figure this out but if or when they do, it’ll be one of the most powerful features ever seen in the product…not to mention the elevated status Excel would enjoy as a BI front end.

Now, let us pray…..

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:20 +0000

Andreas - I use a single XY chart subdivided into the panels using (for example) gridlines. In the chart I created here, the data spanned 0 to 7 on the horizontal axis and 0 to 3 on the vertical. Data is normalized to scales of 0 to 1, then the appropriate integer is added to place the data in the appropriate row and column of the panel chart. These two pages describe techniques used in constructing panel charts. Panel Charts with Different Scales Panel Chart Example: Chart with Vertical Panels I am working on a utility to generate panel charts, but it has not been easy, since every one I produce seems to have its own idiosyncrasies, and thus needs plenty of human guidance.

By: Small Mutiples - Abortion Data 1980-2003 | More Information per Pixel

Small Mutiples - Abortion Data 1980-2003 | More Information per Pixel — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:28:34 +0000

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By: Andreas Lipphardt

Andreas Lipphardt — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:17:47 +0000

Jon,

I like your panel chart. Its a good idea to include the Abortion Numbers as a 3rd measure int the panel chart. What I like particularly is that you created a matrix like version, that not uses redundant chart axis like my version:

http://blog.xlcubed.com/small-mutiples-abortion-data-1980-2003/

My version used a set of regular line charts. Its seems your version uses a tweaked XY Chart, correct? Would be good to see the Excel technique to create such a panel charts for multiple measures and categories.
Is it possible to add a Y axis for the 3 measures?

Andreas