graph variance components when 1 is negative

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nellis - 29 Jul 2008 21:49 GMT

I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar chart is
greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative component.
How can I do this?

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Wigi - 29 Jul 2008 22:46 GMT

Hello

Did you mean something like this?

http://www.andypope.info/charts/Invertneg.htm

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> I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
> fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
> variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
> individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar chart is
> greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative component.
> How can I do this?

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Jon Peltier - 29 Jul 2008 23:14 GMT

Instead of a stacked bar chart, try a waterfall chart:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Waterfall.html

- Jon
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Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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> I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
> fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
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> component.
> How can I do this?

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nellis - 30 Jul 2008 03:20 GMT

Thanks for the response, Jon. I did think of a waterfall chart, however I
have 7 ship points that I want to show variances for and was hoping to do
this in one chart - each bar would be a ship point and broken down by
variance components.

> Instead of a stacked bar chart, try a waterfall chart:
>
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> > component.
> > How can I do this?

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Jon Peltier - 30 Jul 2008 17:48 GMT

A stacked chart isn't exactly what you want. You could set it up so there
are two stacks per item, one positive and one negative. This would work
fine, but it would take some rearranging of the data.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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> Thanks for the response, Jon. I did think of a waterfall chart, however I
> have 7 ship points that I want to show variances for and was hoping to do
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>> > component.
>> > How can I do this?

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