Circular Bar chart?

[DaveinVT]

Hello,
Is it possible to create a circular bar chart, with the radii of th
circle serving as the y-axis of the chart, and the perimeter of th
circle serving as the x-axis?
Thanks

 

[William B. (Billby)]

Is this what you mean?
http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/the-consultants-chart-revisited/

Or perhaps one like this?
http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/magazine-quality-vs-informative-infovisualization/

There are also plenty of third party product$ that can do what you want.

Go to: http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en
And enter the words: excel circular bar chart
Then if you see an image that looks interesting click
on it and visit the site where the image originated from.

Have fun,

William B.

 

[DaveinVT]

What exactly is it you're trying to plot on this graph?

I'm trying to plot data collected about fish populations taken fro
sample sites which are arranged geographically around a specific point
This is why I'd like the bar chart to be plotted in a circle -- to giv
a geographic sense of each site in relation to one another.
Each site has data about both the male and female fish which wer
captured, and this is best shown as stacked bars.

I'm essentially trying to recreate these charts and am also trying t
find a way to plot both charts together (as an overlay perhaps?
Plotting together, particularly in this format is tricky because to
many bars stacked next to each other renders the data unreadable
Furthermore, the data in one chart is measured as a % (from 50%-100%
and in the other is measured as a count (from 1-20). I suppose I ca
simply "translate" the pure numbers to %, beginning at 50% (with 1 bein
50% and 20 being 100%)...

In any case, just getting this stuff in a chart in excel will allow m
to play with it and hopefully find the best solution. Is it possible t
make this circular bar chart thing happen, or will I have to jus
fabricate something in illustrator

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[DaveinVT]

Thanks for the reply. I posted a jpeg of what I want to recreate (an
then play with a bit) in this tread he
http://www.excelbanter.com/showthread.php?t=447224

I guess I should have asked all my questions in one thread to keep i
all together...

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[William B. (Billby)]

Hi Dave, I checked out your jpeg and the Excelbanter blog.
What your are trying to achieve is quite complex for Excel.
A polar chart might do what you require but I couldn't find
any 'free' examples at that level of complexity...

The Excel 'Sparklines' charting mentioned elsewhere by Ben
is quite extensive but doesn't appear to have a direct
solution for your problem. Best of luck with your research
and eventual success in plotting it. WB.