Chart in Excel 365
How to plot investment opportunity zones in Excel
If you start a new business, create a new product, or change a business model, break-even
analysis lets you find out at what stage your company, product, or service will become
profitable. Break-even point is the stage where you have no profit yet but have no
loss already. However, there are many preceding and following stages important for the
investor. The investor wants to know not only how quickly the initial investments will pay off,
and extra income will be received, but also how quickly the normal profit and the economic profit
will be earned.
How to create a break-even chart in Excel
A revenue the company generates from selling the products or providing the services should cover the
fixed costs, variable costs, and leave a contribution margin. The point where the total operating
margin (the difference between the price of the product or service and the variable costs per item
or customer) covers the fixed costs is called a break-even point.
Creating Pie of Pie and Bar of Pie charts
Excel pie charts are useful to display fractions of a whole by splitting a circle into
sections. Each section looks like a slice of a pie and represents a category. Such
a layout makes it easy to observe relationships between parts, but the smaller becomes
the slice (less than 10%) – the harder becomes to estimate it visually.
How to add labels to the mosaic plot
This is the third and last part of the tip
How to create a mosaic plot in
Excel
(the second part is
How to create a
step Area chart for the Mosaic plot in Excel).
The step area chart created in the previous part has invalid labels for both axes and
no data labels:
How to create a step Area chart for the Mosaic plot in Excel
This is a second part of the tip
How to create a mosaic plot in
Excel. The first part describes how to prepare the data for the step Area chart created in
this part.
How to create a mosaic plot in Excel
Pie and bar charts greatly simplify the understanding of percentages distribution for
one categorical variable but fail to build a meaningful representation of two and more
variables. A quite recent innovation in data visualization real is the Mosaic plot,
which helps to grasp the correlations within marketing, sales, and other financial data.
You will not find this chart among Excel standard charts, but you can build one.
How to add labels to the Marimekko chart
This is the third, last part of the tip
How to create a
Marimekko or Mekko chart in Excel
(the second part is
How to add separators to the
Marimekko chart).
The area chart created in the previous part needs data labels:
How to add separators to the Marimekko chart
This is the second part of the tip
How to create a Marimekko or Mekko chart in Excel.
In the first part of this tip, a step Area chart was created:
How to create a Marimekko chart or Mekko chart in Excel
The distribution of market shares or stocks of the investment portfolio often is illustrated
by pie or doughnut charts. The illustration of multi-market shares and multiple investment
portfolios calls for different approaches. The Marimekko chart (also known as
Mekko chart, or mosaic plot) comes to the rescue.
How to create a Heatmap chart in Excel
A Heatmap or Heat Map chart looks like a table, which cells colors
depend on the cell value. These charts are popular in biology, web and other analytics,
geography, etc. Tabular data transformation for time series data projects one-dimensional
data into two-dimensional time matrices, which simplify frequent pattern analysis.