First of all, thanks everyone for making the should you always start barcharts at zero? discussion lively. Almost everyone felt that we should start bar charts at zero.
After spending sometime with my initial test cricket statistics dashboard, I have created few alternatives. You can see them below.
But somehow I feel that I haven’t found very good alternatives. So, I am making this as a simple contest.
What would you do if you had to plot the test cricket statistics data on a simple yet intuitive dash board?
Just use your imagination, come up with alternatives and share them in comments. You can get the data here. The best ones will be shared with all readers in another post. 🙂
PS: You can share excel files / images with everyone by uploading them to a free hosting site (flickr, photobucket for images) and then paste the links in the comments box. Let me know if you have any difficulty. Also, if you want me to host the files, feel free to send them at chandoo.d at gmail.com. Happy Charting 🙂
Ok, now on to the alternative visualizations that I could think of.
First the original dashboard with correct axis scaling options:
I have also tried to come up in-cell chart variations. But Nothing looked that great. Here is one that I liked:
Then I tied to transpose the chart (instead of showing player names in rows, I tried to show them in columns) . Here are 2 variations (one with fewer colors)
What about you? How would you visualize the test cricket statistics data?
PS: The original charts are much more bigger and readable. I have adjusted the scale to fit them on the screen.
11 Responses to “Use Alt+Enter to get multiple lines in a cell [spreadcheats]”
@Chandoo:
One more useful trick.......
In a column you have no. of data in rows and need to copy in the next row from the previous row, no need to go for the previous rows but entering Alt + down arrow, you will get the list of data, (in asending order), entered in the previous rows...
This is another great tip. I use this all the time to make sense of some *very* long formulas. As soon as the formula is debugged I remove the break.
Great tip Chandoo!
I use this feature often and it has even gotten the, "how did you do that" response.
Thanks!
@Ketan: Alt+down arrow is an awesome tip. I never knew it and now I am using it everyday.
@Jorge, Tony: Agree... 🙂
[...] Day 1: Insert Line Breaks in a Cell [...]
how can we merge a two sheet.
excellent idea. Chandoo you are genious
Hi chandoo,
I have used ctrl+enter to break the cell. But I did not get the result.
Please tell me how can i break the cell in multiple lines.
Hi, Ranveer,
Its not Ctrl+enter to break the cell, use Alt+Enter to make it happen.
hi Chandoo....
how we can use Alt+Enter in multiple rows at the same time please reply hurry i have lot of work and have no time and i m stuck in this. 🙁
Alt+J worked once 🙁
So I found another more reliable way:
=SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(13),"")
Where A2 is the cell that contains the line breaks which the code for it is CHAR(13). It will replace it with whatever inside the ""