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The document provides an overview of data visualization, covering essential topics such as tables, charts, and advanced visualization techniques. It emphasizes the importance of effective table design principles and various types of charts, including scatter, line, bar, and pie charts, for interpreting data. Additionally, it discusses the utility of data dashboards and the role of visualization in identifying data errors and highlighting trends.

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Lecture#08 Excel 3

The document provides an overview of data visualization, covering essential topics such as tables, charts, and advanced visualization techniques. It emphasizes the importance of effective table design principles and various types of charts, including scatter, line, bar, and pie charts, for interpreting data. Additionally, it discusses the utility of data dashboards and the role of visualization in identifying data errors and highlighting trends.

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D a t a Vi s u a l i z a t i o n

By: Monis Ahmed Thakur


Topics to be Covered

01 Overview of Data Visualization

02 Tables

03 Charts

04 Advanced Data Visualization

05 Data Dashboards
Introduction

• Data visualization involves:


– Creating a summary table for the data.
– Generating charts to help interpret, analyze, and learn
from the data.
• Uses of data visualization:
– Helpful for identifying data errors.
– Reduces the size of your data set by highlighting
important relationships and trends in the data.
Example of a Low Data-Ink Ratio Table
Increasing the Data-Ink Ratio by Removing Unnecessary Gridlines
Table Design Principles
Cross tabulation
Pivot Tables in Excel
Recommended Pivot Table in Excel

TABLES
Tables

Tables should be used when:


1. The reader needs to refer to specific numerical values.
2. The reader needs to make precise comparisons between
different values and not just relative comparisons.
3. The values being displayed have different units or very
different magnitudes.
Table Showing Exact Values for Costs and Revenues by Month for
Gossamer Industries.

Line Chart of Monthly Costs and Revenues at Gossamer Industries


Combined Line Chart and Table for Monthly Costs and Revenues at
Gossamer Industries
Tables

Table Design Principles


– Avoid using vertical lines in a table unless they are necessary for clarity
– Horizontal lines are generally necessary only for separating column titles
from data values or when indicating that a calculation has taken place
Figure 3.7: Comparing Different Table Designs
Tables

• Crosstabulation: A useful type of table for describing data of


two variables.
• PivotTable: A crosstabulation in Microsoft Excel.
Quality Rating and Meal Price for 300 Los Angeles Restaurants
Cross Tabulation of Quality Rating and Meal Price for 300
Los Angeles Restaurants

• The greatest number of restaurants in the sample (64) have a very good rating and a
meal price in the $20–29 range.
• Only two restaurants have an excellent rating and a meal price in the $10–19 range.
• The right and bottom margins of the crosstabulation give the frequency of quality
rating and meal price separately.
Initial PivotTable Field List and PivotTable Field Report
for the Restaurant Data.
Final PivotTable Report for the Restaurant Data

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Scatter Charts
Recommended Charts in Excel
Line Charts
Bar Charts and Column Charts
A Note on Pie Charts

CHARTS
Charts

• Charts (or graphs): Visual methods of displaying data.


• Scatter chart: Graphical presentation of the relationship
between two quantitative variables.
• Trendline: A line that provides an approximation of the rela-
tionship between the variables.
• Line chart: A line connects the points in the chart.
– Useful for time series data collected over a period of time
(minutes, hours, days, years, etc.)
Sample Data for the San Francisco Electronics Store
Scatter Chart for the San Francisco Electronics Store
Monthly Sales Data of Air Compressors at Kirkland Industries
Scatter Chart and Line Chart for Monthly Sales Data at
Kirkland Industries
Regional Sales Data by Month for Air Compressors at
Kirkland Industries
Line Chart of Regional Sales Data at Kirkland Industries
Charts

Sparkline: Special type of line chart


– Minimalist type of line chart that can be placed directly into
a cell in Excel.
– Contain no axes; they display only the line for the data.
– Take up very little space and they can be effectively used to
provide information on overall trends for time series data.
Sparklines for the Regional Sales Data at Kirkland Industries
Charts

• Bar Charts: Use horizontal bars to display the


magnitude of the quantitative variable.
• Column Charts: Use vertical bars to display the
magnitude of the quantitative variable.
• Bar and column charts are very helpful in making
comparisons between categorical variables.
Bar Charts for Accounts Managed Data
Gentry manages the greatest number of accounts and Williams the fewest
Bar Chart with Data Labels for Accounts Managed Data
Charts

• Pie charts: Common form of chart used to compare


categorical data.
• Heat map: A two-dimensional graphical representa-
tion of data that uses different shades of color to indi-
cate magnitude.
Pie Chart of Accounts Managed
Heat Map and Sparklines for Same-Store Sales Data

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