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New Charts in Excel 2016

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New Charts in Excel 2016
September 15, 2015 by Mynda Treacy

With Office 2016 officially launching on September 22, 2015 I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at a few of the new charts in Excel 2016.

Treemap Chart

New Charts in Excel 2016 - Treemap

A Treemap chart is an area based visualisation that displays your data in a hierarchical pattern.

The tree branches are represented by rectangles, with sub-branches displayed as a smaller rectangle.

The size of the rectangle represents the quantity measure and the colour of the boxes can be used to create associations in the data, or a colour scale can indicate performance comparisons in the data.

Treemaps are good for visualising a lot of data with multiple levels or groupings, i.e. hierarchical data.

The chart above enables you to quickly see that Red Delicious apples have the most stock and the sub-branches enable you to see the different ages of the stock. It is based on the following data:

Treemap source data

Alternatively you could arrange the data by age, which might make more sense for monitoring fruit stocks, and use the colours to create associations between the different types of apples like this:

example excel 2016 Treemap chart

Treemap Cautions

  • In my opinion Treemaps could quickly become the pie chart of Data Visualisation if they’re used purely for the purpose of having some eye candy in your report.
  • Careful labelling of these charts is required for them to be useful in decision making.
  • Comparisons in the data are tricky because there isn’t a common baseline for all categories.
  • Unfortunately the colour encoding must be done manually so this chart still needs some development before it meets all the requirements of a Treemap.

Waterfall Chart

Waterfall charts, sometimes called Bridge Charts, show the breakdown from a starting value to the end result. They are often used to visualise financial statements by illustrating the cumulative effect of income and expenses to get to the final figure.

new charts in excel 2016 - waterfall chart

Learn how to create Office 365 Excel Waterfall Charts here, including a workaround for earlier versions of Excel.

Pareto Charts

new charts in excel 2016 - pareto chart

We’ve always been able to build a Pareto chart in Excel by combining a column and line chart, but in Excel 2016 it’s built in so there’s a little less effort required to create it. Plus there are some settings for the bins so you don’t need to collate the data into bins first:

pareto chart options menu

Box and Whisker Chart

Box-and-whisker plots are a great way to display data broken into four quartiles, each with an equal number of data values.

The box shows where the middle of the data lies and the whiskers show the smallest and largest values in the data set, which are sometimes also outliers.

It's a nice chart to use when analysing how your data is skewed.

new charts in excel 2016  - box and whisker chart

Sunburst

I’ve left this one till last because it’s my least favourite. Sure it looks pretty, but so do pie charts. It doesn’t mean they are always useful!

Clearly there is too much data in this example as you can only read the labels on the largest segments, but then maybe that’s all you’re interested in.

new charts in excel 2016  - sunburst chart

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Disclosure: If you purchase the Excel chart add-ins I earn a few dollars, but that's not why I recommend them. I do so because they're excellent tools.

Thanks

Special thanks to Shane Devonshire for providing the Olympics data for the sunburst chart.

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Comments

  1. Matthew Kuo

    October 18, 2015 at 6:35 am

    I’ve been waiting for the Box and Whisker chart for a while. Glad it’s finally here.

    Reply
  2. Jon von der heyden

    September 18, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    Waterfall chart – wooohoooo! I can finally scrap my age old addin! Accountants love the waterfall!

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      September 18, 2015 at 7:24 pm

      😀 indeed, we do love the waterfall chart!

      Reply
  3. Renato Vianello

    September 16, 2015 at 1:44 am

    Hi Mynda,
    good sneak peek…
    Does waterfall chart support negative numbers too???
    Ciao
    Renato

    Reply
    • Mynda Treacy

      September 16, 2015 at 9:36 am

      Hi Renato,

      Sure does!

      Mynda

      Reply

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