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1 Assignment - Chapter 5- Revised
Graphing in Excel
Open the Australian car sales 2018 spreadsheet from the icon below. The spreadsheet contains
three datasets: top selling car brands, passenger vehicles and new car sales.
Top 10 Selling Car Brands Numbe
in 2018 r
Ford 69081
Holden 60751
Honda 51525
Hyundai 94187
Kia 58815
Mazda 111280
Mitsubishi 84944
Nissan 57699
Toyota 217061
Volkswagon 56620
Steps
1. Start with ‘top selling car brands’. Select all of the data, including the headings.
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2. Go up to the ribbon and select ‘Insert’. A number of graph options will appear.
3. Choosing the ‘Recommended Charts’ option provides some Excel recommendations based
on the type of data in the dataset.
You can also choose your own type of graph. If you change your mind about the graph you’ve
chosen, you can press the ‘Change Chart Type’ button to choose a different graph.
4. Excel is quick to graph data but it usually requires some adjustments. The below is an
example of a horizontal bar graph for the data.
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To change the graph title, click in the graph title and type the new title:
Excel has automatically provided a legend for your graph, at the bottom of the graph. Changing
the cell B1, the heading for the number of cars, automatically changes the legend in the graph:
You can also change the colours of the bars and the background colour of the graph.
5. It could be useful to sort the data in descending order, given that it is the top 10 selling car
brands. This can be done by going up to the ribbon and choosing Data -> Sort. Sort by
Number of Cars and Order Smallest to Largest. This will change your graph automatically.
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Now it is much easier to see which brand was the most popular and how the rest of the top 10
compared:
6. Now create graphs for the other datasets: Passenger vehicles and New car sales.
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Essay Question: Consider which would be the most appropriate graph to use to display the
datasets. Why do you think so? Is there more than one option? A column chart is the most
appropriate chart for this type of data. Sorting the data from greatest to least will help the most.
Instruction: for this assignment download a dataset from the US department of agriculture and
economic research service which complied unemployment and median household income from
2007- 2017 and complete the question below. The link to the web site is
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/county-level-data-sets/download-data/.
1. Insert the data in excel and create a scatter plot median household income date for the
state of Alabama for 2016
5.1 Assignment - Chapter 5- Revised
5.1 Assignment - Chapter 5- Revised
2. Insert the data in excel and create a Comparative analysis of unemployment rates from
2016-2017 for the state of Alabama
5.1 Assignment - Chapter 5- Revised
3. Insert the data in excel and create a Vertical Stacked Bar chart Comparative analysis of
civilian labor force from 2016-2017 for the state of Alabama
5.1 Assignment - Chapter 5- Revised
4. Insert the data in excel and create a Horizontal Stacked Bar chart 1.1 Comparative
analysis of labor force from 2016-2017 for the state of Alabama
