Data Visualization in Excel: All Excel Charts and Graphs
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What are the chart types I will learn in this course?
Excel offers the following major chart types. All of these are covered in this course
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Column Chart
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Line Chart
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Pie Chart
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Doughnut Chart
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Bar Chart
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Area Chart
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XY (Scatter) Chart
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Bubble Chart
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Stock Chart
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Surface Chart
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Radar Chart
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Combo Chart
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Pivot Chart
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Sparklines
And many other creative ones 🙂
How are charts useful in Excel?
A chart is a tool you can use in Excel to communicate data graphically. Charts allow your audience to see the meaning behind the numbers, and they make showing comparisons and trends much easier.
What are the benefits of using charts in Excel?
Excel charts allow spreadsheet administrators to create visualizations of data sets. By highlighting a set of data within an Excel spreadsheet and feeding it into the charting tool, users can easily create various types of charts in which the data is displayed in a graphical way.
This course will answer all the questions that would pop up while you set to visualize your data using Excel charts such as:
How do you make Excel charts look better?
How do you format a chart in Excel?
What are the different elements of charts?
How do I make those awesome infographics that I see in fancy magazines and TV reports?
How do I create a comparison chart in Excel?
What is the best chart to use for comparison?
And many more…
How is this course different from other resources available online?
Most courses cover only teach how to draw different types of charts in Excel. The main point is missed. The main point of creating a chart is that you want to convey a message or tell a story using the chart. In this course, once you have learnt all the charting tools, you will also learn how you should create a chart. How you can highlight your message and avoid clutter in the chart, so that when your audience looks at the chart, the message is clearly conveyed to them.
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Welcome to the Course!Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will discuss the content of this course. We will also discuss about the course prerequisites.
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Why are charts used?
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about
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This is a milestone!
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Categories of messages that can be conveyed
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about
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Elements of charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the different elements of Excel charts. Understanding of these elements will helps us in formatting in later part of the course.
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The Easy way of creating charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about creating the excel charts using just one mouse click.
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Bar and column charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the most common chart type. Column chart displays each data point
as a vertical column, the height of which corresponds to the value.
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Formating charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the different chart formatting options available in Excel
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Exercise 1: Bar and Column Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Bar and column Charts.
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Best Practices: Bar Chart
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the best practices of using bar charts.
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Line Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Line Charts. Line charts are often used to plot continuous data and are useful for identifying trends.
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Avoiding the Spaghetti plot
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Speghetti plot (a type of line chart) and how to replace that with more informative charts.
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Exercise 2: Line Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Line Charts.
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Area Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Area Charts. Area charts are line chart in which the area below the line has been colored in.
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Pie and Doughnut Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Pie and Doughnut Charts. A pie chart is useful when you want to show relative proportions or contributions to a whole.
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Why we should avoid Pie charts!
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about why we should avoid Pie charts.
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Exercise 3: Pie Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Pie Charts.
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Scatter plot or XY chart
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Scatter (XY) plots. This type of chart often is used to show the relationship between two variables.
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Exercise 4: Scatter plot
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Scatter Charts.
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Frequency Distribution and Histograms
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn aboutFrequency distribution and Histograms. A histogram displays the count of data items in each of several discrete bins.
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Exercise 5: Histogram
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Histogram Charts.
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Waterfall chart
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Waterfall Charts. A waterfall chart is used to show the cumulative effect of a series of numbers, usually both positive and negative numbers.
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Exercise 6: Waterfall chart
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Waterfall Charts.
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Hierarchy Charts: Sunburst and Treemap
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Sunburst and Treemap charts. A sunburst chart is like a pie chart with multiple concentric layers. In a treemap chart the data is represented as rectangles. These chart types are most useful for data that’s organized hierarchically.
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Exercise 7: Hierarchy charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Hierarchy Charts.
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Combination charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about how to combine two or more chart types in a single chart.
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Exercise 8: Combination Charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Combine Charts.
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Highlighting chart message
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the advanced techniques of highlighting message in charts.
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Eliminating Distractions from the Graph
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the best practices of using Line Charts
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Avoiding clutter
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about how to avoid clutter from our charts.
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[Optional] Test for your general excel knowledge
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Quiz
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Stock charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Stock Charts. Stock charts are most useful for displaying stock-market information.
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Radar charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about the Radar chart. A radar chart is a specialized chart that has a separate axis for each category,
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Surface charts
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Surface Charts. Surface charts display two or more data series on a surface.
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Heatmaps
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Heatmaps. Heatmap are not a chart but it can used as an substitute to the surface charts.
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Mini charts: Sparklines
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn about Sparklines. Sparklines are like mini charts which resides inside a cell.
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Exercise 10: Sparklines
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
Try this exercise to gauge your knowledge of Sparklines.
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Practice Test 1
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Creative Infographic 1
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn how to draw cool info-graphs in excel
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Creative Infographic 2
Welcome to the data visualization course using excel : 'Excel charts: Converting Data into Impactful Charts'
In this lecture we will learn how to draw cool info-graphs in excel.
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