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    Graph displaying the wrong information

    Hi all,
    I'm struggling trying to find a solution for the following problem and was wondering if one of you could help.

    For part of my dissertation I have to observe the locations of schooling fish within a fish tank, which is divided up into 8 sections (T1 - T4 for the top sections of the tank and B1 - B4 for the lower sections of the tank). Once per minute I need to record how many fish are in each section.
    My table has "minutes" plotted in the left column and "sections" plotted along the top row.

    Whenever I try to create a bubble graph from this information it treats the "sections" as series rather than plotting them on the Y axis. "Minutes" are displayed correctly in the X axis.

    All the solutions I have found so far have had no effect on the outcome of my graph. I have also tried using other graphs and I'm getting the same result.

    I've dropped a copy of one of the tables here

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    Re: Graph displaying the wrong information

    Your file does not include any examples of the charts you have tried. It might help us better understand your question to see what you have tried, with an explanation of why it is unsuitable.

    I find that a lot of charting questions are often more about arranging data in the spreadsheet rather than creating the actual chart. The arrangement you have should be good for creating a scatter or line or column or bar chart, but it will not work well for a bubble chart. In order to create a bubble chart, I would change the arrangement of the spreadsheet to a list rather than a table like you have:

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    The number in the second column is just an arbitrary number (I chose 1 - 8, you can choose anything that makes good sense) to replace the text section names for the vertical value axis of the bubble chart. If you feel a real need to show those text categories on the Y axis of the chart, you can use a technique like this to "create" a vertical category axis: https://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts...egoryAxis.html

    With the data arranged like that, creating a bubble chart should be as easy as selecting those first three columns and inserting a bubble chart.
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    Re: Graph displaying the wrong information

    Thankyou that worked!

    To help anyone else who is stuck with this issue here is an image up of the process.

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    I can't find a reliable place to host files for more than a month so send me a DM if you would like the source file.

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