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Want to chart all data as points for monday through sunday on chart. Excel sheet included.

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    Want to chart all data as points for monday through sunday on chart. Excel sheet included.

    Hello guys! Good to be apart, I hope I learn a lot to come.

    I'm trying to make a chart using a pivot chart or scatter plot. I'm not sure why my chart is only plotting 5 days of the week and only using 5 values. My data is using 2 columns for data. Column B are the days of the week. I'm interested in plotting a dot for each time and day there is data for. So for example: Each time a car drives by I note the time I recorded it and the day of the week as well. So at 9:40am on a wednesday I recorded a car that drove by.

    I want the chart to reflect a dot or bar for each time and day there is data for. (For reach time and day a car drove by.)
    If the chart is showing correctly it would show the greatest times of day the traffic is the highest.


    There will be duplicate days. So There may be several thursdays with 2:00pm data. I'm interested i duplicate data being reflected as well.
    The problem is that the chart is showing all seven days but it's only plotting seven points of data, or bars.

    so value data would be for example:
    12:05am
    12:15am
    3:00am
    3:05am
    5:15am
    7:00am,
    10:00am
    12:00pm
    1:55pm
    4:00pm
    etc...

    Axis data is:
    Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
    Friday
    Saturday
    Sunday

    There may be hundreds of 12:00pm Saturdays, or hundreds of 2:55pm Tuesdays, etc.
    I would like all of them to reflect a dot or bar on the chart.

    I don't care if this must be completely redesigned, no problem. Just don't know what to use for this.

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    Re: Want to chart all data as points for monday through sunday on chart. Excel sheet inclu

    Not sure I fully understand. Ultimately, it sounds like a histogram of sorts, so my first thought is to approach it the way I would approach a histogram type problem:

    1) Arrange source data in two columns -- column 1 is "day of week" and column 2 is "time of day".
    2) A pivot table or a COUNTIFS() function to count how many entries are present for each desired day of week + time of day combination. Details depend on exactly what I want the final table + chart to look like. My first guess would be to have times of day down the left side of the table, day of week across the top, and the desired counts in the body of the table.
    3) Build chart from result of 2.

    That's a quick overview with no details. Does something like that sound correct? What steps do you have questions about?
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    Re: Want to chart all data as points for monday through sunday on chart. Excel sheet inclu

    I believe that's just about right. So I have the data in two columns B and C.

    B has the days, Monday, Tuesdau, Wednesday, etc.

    and C has the times 7:00 am, 1:40 am, 12:00 pm, 8:05 am, etc.

    I highlighted both columns and then chose a pivot table. I used the days in the Row Labels and the times for values.

    It gives me a count. Basically it counts all the times cars were seen on Monday - Sunday.

    So yes for details. Is this where I can use the Report Filter now?
    Wanting to see the chart reflecting which actual time of that day was the busiest for traffic. (example: You can see that between 11:00am and 5:00pm traffic was very busy.)

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    Re: Want to chart all data as points for monday through sunday on chart. Excel sheet inclu

    I am not an expert with pivot tables. Report Filter might be what you want. In my tests, with day of week as the row labels, I put time of day as the column labels, and count of time of day as the value field, then grouped the time of day by an appropriate value. If Report Filter allows you to do something similar, then that will work fine, too.

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