可以在Excel中创建具有二维X轴的散点图

Question

I'm trying to create what I would call a Vertical stacked scatter plot or a scatte plot with a 2 dimensional x-axis. I tried using excel's normal charting tools as well as its pivot charting functionality, but I have not been able to crack this one. As anyone had any luck with this type of a chart or can you recommend a tool that can handle it. I've included an image of what I'm trying to achieve below:

The Y axis has months, and the X axis is a combination of Year and Units.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Answer 1

This can be easily handled in Tableau, if you and your users have access to it. For example, using sample Excel data with this format:

Date       Units
1/1/2014   10
2/1/2014   20
3/1/2014   30
4/1/2014   40
...

You can create the scatter plot you've shown in your mock-up by doing the following:

• Drag Date to Rows and change it to Month level
• Drag Date to Columns and leave it at Year level
• Drag Units to Columns
• Change the Marks type to Circle
• Reduce the size of the circles so they look like points
• Sort Month according to your preference

Here's a link to a screenshot of the set-up and resulting plot:

screenshot of scatter plot

There are also many formatting options to change the look of the plot.