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W2a. Hands-On Lab - Creating Advance Charts

This lab teaches users how to create advanced charts in Excel, specifically a sunburst chart, a scatter chart, and a histogram. It utilizes the free 'Excel for the web' version and a modified dataset from Kaggle. By the end of the lab, participants will have hands-on experience with these chart types and their respective creation processes.

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W2a. Hands-On Lab - Creating Advance Charts

This lab teaches users how to create advanced charts in Excel, specifically a sunburst chart, a scatter chart, and a histogram. It utilizes the free 'Excel for the web' version and a modified dataset from Kaggle. By the end of the lab, participants will have hands-on experience with these chart types and their respective creation processes.

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Hands-on Lab 2: Creating Advanced Charts

Estimated time needed: 20 minutes

In this lab, you will learn how to create some advanced charts in Excel. We’ll first create a sunburst chart, then a scatter chart,
and lastly a histogram.

Software Used in this Lab


The instruction videos in this course use the full Excel Desktop version as this has all the available product features, but for the
hands-on labs we will be using the free ‘Excel for the web’ version as this is available to everyone.

Although you can use the Excel Desktop software if you have access to this version, it is recommended that you use Excel for
the web for the hands-on labs as the lab instructions specifically refer to this version, and there are some small differences in
the interface and available features. If you do not yet have access to Excel for the Web, you can follow the instructions in the
following lab to get started with it: Hands-on Lab: Introduction to Excel for the web.

Dataset Used in this Lab


The dataset used in this lab comes from the following source: https://www.kaggle.com/gagandeep16/car-sales under a CC0:
Public Domain license. We are using a modified subset of that dataset for the lab, so to follow the lab instructions successfully,
please use the dataset provided with the lab, rather than the dataset from the original source.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

Create a hierarchical type chart such as a sunburst chart.


Create a scatter chart.
Create a statistical chart such as a histogram.

Exercise 1 : Creating Sunburst, Scatter and Histogram


Charts in Excel
In this exercise, you will learn how to create advanced charts, such as a sunburst chart, a scatter chart and histogram charts in
Excel.

Task A : Create a Sunburst Chart


1. Download the file Car_Sales_Kaggle_DV0130EN_Lab2_Start.xlsx. Upload and open it using Excel for the web.

2. Switch to the worksheet named Sunburst Chart.

3. Click the filter drop-down in column A (Manufacturer), and select Filter….


4. In the list, only select Nissan and click OK.

5. Select column B, then hold SHIFT and select column C.

6. On the Charts group of the Insert tab, click Other Charts and choose Sunburst from the Hierarchical category.

7. Click on the floating chart area to access the Chart tab in the ribbon.

8. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Chart Title and select Edit Chart Title….

9. In the text input area of the dialog box Edit Title, write “Unit Sales of Nissan Cars” and click OK.

10. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Legend and select Show Legend at Right.

11. Your chart should look something like the one below:
Task B : Create a Scatter Chart
1. Switch to the worksheet named Scatter Chart.

2. Click the filter drop-down in column A (Manufacturer), and select Filter….

3. In the list, only select Audi, BMW, Mercedes-B, Porsche, Volkswagen and click OK.

4. Select column E, then hold SHIFT and select column F.

5. On the Charts group of the Insert tab, click Scatter Chart and choose Scatter with only Markers from the Scatter
category.

6. Drag the chart across to the right of the sheet.

7. Click on the floating chart area to access the Chart tab in the ribbon.

8. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Chart Title and select Edit Chart Title….

9. In the text input area of the dialog box Edit Title, write “Comparing Price with Year Resale Value of German Cars”
and click OK.

10. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Axis Titles and select Primary Horizontal Axis Title > Edit Horizontal
Axis Title….

11. In the text input area of the dialog box Edit Title, write “Price” and click OK.

12. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Axis Titles and select Primary Vertical Axis Title > Edit Vertical Axis
Title….

13. In the text input area of the dialog box Edit Title, write “Year Resale Value” and click OK.

14. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Legend and select None.

15. Your chart should look something like the one below:
Task C : Create a Histogram Chart
1. Switch to the worksheet named Histogram Chart.

2. Click the filter drop-down in column A (Manufacturer), and select Filter….

3. In the list, only select Audi, BMW, Mercedes-B, Porsche, Volkswagen and click OK.

4. Select column B, then hold SHIFT and select column C.

5. On the Charts group of the Insert tab, click Other Charts Chart and choose Histogram from the Statistical category.
6. Drag the chart across to the right of the sheet.

7. Click on the floating chart area to access the Chart tab in the ribbon.

8. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Chart Title and select Edit Chart Title….

9. In the text input area of the dialog box Edit Title, write “Count of German Car Models by Price Range” and click
OK.

10. On the Labels group of the Chart tab, click Data Labels and select Center.

11. On the Format group of the Chart tab, click Format.

12. On the right side menu bar Format, select Series “Price” > Fill > Orange, Accent 2.

13. Your chart should look something like the one below:

Congratulations! You have completed Lab 2, and you are ready for the next topic.

Author(s)
Sandip Saha Joy

Other Contributor(s)
Steve Ryan

Changelog
Date Version Changed by Change Description
2020-09-10 1.2 Steve Ryan Added software and dataset info
2020-09-09 1.1 Steve Ryan ID Review
2020-09-05 1.0 Sandip Saha Joy Initial version created
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