Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Creating strip plot in excel

In strip plot we have vertical or horizontal lines spaced at particular values in X or Y. In case multiple strip plots the value in  X and Y axis just are meant to plot the strips.

Here is a trick to develop strip plot using XY scatter plot with error bars.

(1) First of all add simple scatter plot, SN is a dummy variable with serial number. We need to edit the data source.



(2)  Now we want to plot strips in X axis, while the series A, B, C, D in Y axis, So now I created a dummy variable for place where these A, B, C, D will be positioned - i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 in Y axis.  X value will be columns labeled with A, B, C,D while Y value will dummy constant 1, 2,3,4 for each series respectively.

(3) Now we need to add error bars in Y axis, remove X axis bars. Use a fixed value depending upon how long bar you like to see (for example 0.2), plus and minus bars. Remove bar cap and change the color and size whatever you like to. Remove the points and keep just error bars. You can connect the bars with lines too.



The strip plots are ready. If you like to change the strip length by thrid variable, you can do so by simple trick.





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