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 “Fix Incorrect Percentages with this Paste-Special Trick”
I've just taught yesterday to a colleague of mine how to convert amounts in local currency into another by pasting special the ROE.
great thing to know !!!
Chandoo - this is such a great trick and helps save time. If you don't use this shortcut, you have to take can create a formula where =(ref cell /100), copy that all the way down, covert it to a percentage and then copy/paste values to the original column. This does it all much faster. Nice job!
I was just asking peers yesterday if anyone know if an easy way to do this, I've been editing each cell and adding a % manually vs setting the cell to Percentage for months and just finally reached my wits end. What perfect timing! Thanks, great tip!
If it's just appearance you care about, another alternative is to use this custom number format:
0"%"
By adding the percent sign in quotes, it gets treated as text and won't do what you warned about here: "You can not just format the cells to % format either, excel shows 23 as 2300% then."
Dear Jon S. You are the reason I love the internet. 3 year old comments making my life easier.
Thank you.
Here is a quicker protocol.
Enter 10000% into the extra cell, copy this cell, select the range you need to convert to percentages, and use paste special > divide. Since the Paste > All option is selected, it not only divides by 10000% (i.e. 100), it also applies the % format to the cells being pasted on.
@Martin: That is another very good use of Divide / Multiply operations.
@Tony, @Jody: Thank you 🙂
@Jon S: Good one...
@Jon... now why didnt I think of that.. Excellent
Thank You so much. it is really helped me.
Big help...Thanks
Thanks. That really saved me a lot of time!
Is Show Formulas is turned on in the Formula Ribbon, it will stay in decimal form until that is turned off. Drove me batty for an hour until I just figured it out.