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Bubble chart basics
Using 2000 I am trying to come up with a meaningful sample of a bubble chart
for the charting class I teach and I'm having a really tough time. I know nothing of bubble charts. I have been searching the group and web for some time now trying to figure out where I'm going wrong. Here's my data: Region Avg Stay Patients North 1.8 1208 East 2.3 2304 South 1.1 961 West 3.4 1936 Here's what I want to get when I use the bubble chart - the region names as the X axis values, the average stay as the y axis and the bubble size indicating the number of patients. What I GET is the numbers 1 through 6 as the X axis values instead of the region names. The size of the bubbles is correct as is the Y axis - just the bottom axis is not what I expect. If I put the data label values on the series I get the region names - but I'm thinking they should be part of the bottom axis. Where am I going wrong?? Lauri S. |
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Bubble chart basics
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
LauriS said: Using 2000 I am trying to come up with a meaningful sample of a bubble chart for the charting class I teach and I'm having a really tough time. If I put the data label values on the series I get the region names - but I'm thinking they should be part of the bottom axis. The X axis in a bubble chart is an interval axis, as in a scatter chart, not a category axis, as in a bar chart. The only way to get the region names where you want them will be to create a dummy bubble series, give the bubbles the region names as data labels, then format the bubbles to be invisible. Which is probably not a set of operations you want to have to explain to your class. -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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Bubble chart basics
IMO this would be a better chart if you plotted patients as X and average
stay as Y (or switch X and Y, see what looks best), and use one of the following utilities to label the points with the region: Rob Bovey's Chart Labeler, http://appspro.com John Walkenbach's Chart Tools, http://j-walk.com - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "LauriS" wrote in message ... Using 2000 I am trying to come up with a meaningful sample of a bubble chart for the charting class I teach and I'm having a really tough time. I know nothing of bubble charts. I have been searching the group and web for some time now trying to figure out where I'm going wrong. Here's my data: Region Avg Stay Patients North 1.8 1208 East 2.3 2304 South 1.1 961 West 3.4 1936 Here's what I want to get when I use the bubble chart - the region names as the X axis values, the average stay as the y axis and the bubble size indicating the number of patients. What I GET is the numbers 1 through 6 as the X axis values instead of the region names. The size of the bubbles is correct as is the Y axis - just the bottom axis is not what I expect. If I put the data label values on the series I get the region names - but I'm thinking they should be part of the bottom axis. Where am I going wrong?? Lauri S. |
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