Comments on: Animated charts in Excel

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:31:01 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve created a little Excel add-in that does a similar thing, but without the need for adding controls to your Excel worksheet. The user simply creates a table of data, creates a chart from the top row of the table and then uses the add-in’s menu to run the animation.

It is free – for now at least – and can be downloaded from my website – http://www.animatexl.com.

I’d be very interested to know what anyone thinks of it.

Regards
Phil.

By: S Ganesh

S Ganesh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:21:33 +0000

Hi Anand

As I told you earlier, I came up with something like the above image. 5 processes each measured on 4 Dimensions.

I was trying to get each of these respective xl charts one on top of the other on Z-axis which could make the representation in 3D.. But I could not.

Regards
- S Ganesh

By: S Anand

S Anand — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:47:58 +0000

For this particular example, Ganesh, you’re probably better of not
using the scheme I described. It’s probably better to reduce the data
to fewer dimensions (e.g. in pairs: dimensions (A,B), (A,C), (B,C),
etc.). Sorry, without a sense of what the data is about, I’m not sure
I can think of a good way of doing this.

By: SG

SG — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:03:09 +0000

Thanks Anand for the immediate response. A bit more to explain myself.

The things that I would like to depict are these.
To model the system A, I have 4 dimensions each with varying weights. The response score for each dimension is expressed as %. In bubble chart terms- Say, one of the dimension is represented as a bubble, then the outer circle diameter denote the Relative weight of the dimension and a circle inside denote the actual score.

Roughly, I visualize to represent the Model as a stack for 4 bubbles (dimmensions)one on top of other. something like a 3D color model

In the example, that you referred.. Size and time are something which is common to X and Y..

Thanks
Ganesh S

By: S Anand

S Anand — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:38:17 +0000

I think it would depend on the dimensions, SG. The best way of modelling up
to 4 dimensions I’ve seen are using Hans Rosling’s charts at gapminder.org.
But you’d need the 4 dimensions to be mappable to X, Y, size and time.