Advanced Excel Charts Tutorial

Advanced Excel Charts Tutorial Excel charts are an efficient means to visualize the data to convey the results. In addition to the chart types that are available in Excel, some application charts are popular and widely used. In this tutorial, you will learn about these advanced charts and how you can create them in Excel. Audience This guide targets people who want to use graphs or charts in presentations and help people understand data...
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Advanced Excel Charts Tutorial
Excel charts are an efficient means to visualize the data to convey the results. In addition to the chart types that are available in Excel, some application charts are popular and widely used. In this tutorial, you will learn about these advanced charts and how you can create them in Excel.
Audience
This guide targets people who want to use graphs or charts in presentations and help people understand data quickly. Whether you want to make a comparison, show a relationship, or highlight a trend, these charts help your audience "see" what you are talking about.
Among its many features, Microsoft Excel enables you to incorporate charts, providing a way to add visual appeal to your business reports.
Prerequisites
Before you proceed with this tutorial, we are assuming that you are already aware of the basics of Microsoft Excel charts. If you are not well aware of these concepts, then we will suggest you to go through our short tutorial on Excel charts.
Advanced Excel Charts - Introduction
You are aware that charts are the efficient data visualization means to convey the results. In addition to the chart types that are available in Excel, some widely used application charts are popular. In this tutorial, you will learn about these advanced charts and how you can create them in Excel.
Types of Advanced Charts
Following are the advanced charts that you will learn in this tutorial −

• Waterfall Chart
• Band Chart
• Gantt Chart
• Thermometer Chart
• Gauge Chart
• Bullet Chart
• Funnel Chart
• Waffle Chart
• Heat Map
• Step Chart
• Box and Whisker Chart
• Histogram
• Pareto Chart
• Organization Chart
• Advanced Charts in Brief
• We will see all the advanced charts briefly.
  Waterfall Chart
  A Waterfall chart is a form of data visualization that helps in understanding the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values.
  
  Band Chart
  A Band chart is a Line chart with added shaded areas to display the upper and lower boundaries of the defined data ranges.
  
  Gantt Chart
  A Gantt chart is a chart in which a series of horizontal lines depicting tasks, task duration and task hierarchy are used planning and tracking projects.
  
  Thermometer Chart
  A Thermometer chart keeps track of a single task, for e.g. completion of work, representing the current status as compared to a Target. It displays the percentage of the task completed, taking Target as 100%.
  
  Gauge Chart
  Gauge charts, also referred to as Dial charts or Speedometer charts, use a pointer or a needle to show information as a reading on a dial.
  
  Bullet Chart
  Bullet charts support the comparison of a measure to one or more related measures with a linear design.
  Bullet Chart
  Bullet charts support the comparison of a measure to one or more related measures with a linear design.
  
  Funnel Chart
  Funnel chart is used to visualize the progressive reduction of data as it passes from one phase to another in a process.
  Waffle Chart
  Waffle chart is a 10 × 10 cell grid with the cells colored as per conditional formatting to portray a percent value such % work complete.
  
  Heat Map
  A Heat Map is a visual representation of data in a Table to highlight the data points of significance.
  
  Step Chart
  A Step chart is a Line chart that uses vertical and horizontal lines to connect the data points in a series, forming a step-like progression.