I have a 3d cylinder chart that I am having some problems with. I want to effectively sort the cylinders with the highest value at the back and the lowest value at the front. Otherwise the tallest valuest cover the smallest values.
I have tried sorting both a-z and z-a but I really need it to be dynamic based on the values. I have also tried sorting the values by the actual value field. both a-z and z-a but this seems to return completely random results.
the data in the database (example) looks like. I use a parameter to separate by supplier.
Date catgeory_Type cost supplier
01/01/2013 apple $5 abc
01/01/2013 pear $10 def
01/01/2013 bannana $15 cgi
01/02/2013 apple $7 etc
01/02/2013 pear $12 etc
01/02/2013 banana $18 etc
I believe I need some form of expression that sorts the values based on cost. as both a-z and z-a in the instance would provide cylinders that blocked other cylinders.
I have tried sorting the series group by :=Sum(Fields!cost.Value, "DataSet1") and =Fields!cost.Value but this seems to return random results.
I would be happy even if I could achieve a custom sort such as sort by "bannana, pear, apple" although for some "suppliers" this would still cause me an issue.
edit 1: strangely enough this works with a line chart but not a 3d cylinder
edit 2: example
attached is an example. I want the tallest cylinders at the back. but methods mentioned above do not work
In chart area properties -> 3D-options , Enable,
series clustering
Choose this option to cluster series groups. When multiple series for
bar or column charts are clustered, they are displayed along two
distinct rows in the chart area. If series are not clustered, their
corresponding data points are displayed adjacent to each other in one
row. This option is applicable only to bar and column charts.
Also try changing the Rotation & Inclination degrees, to get a better look.
Decrease wall thickness also.
Related
I have a table like below and I want to return the name of the item with the greatest effect of a particular type. For example, I want the name of the ring with the best 'Shield' enchantment, in this case 'Brusef Amelion's Ring'.
Description
Apparel slot
Effect Type
Effect Value
Apron of Adroitness
Chest
Fortify Agility
5 pts
Brusef Amelion's Ring
Ring
Shield
18%
Cuirass of the Herald
Chest
Fortify Health
15 pts
Fortify Magicka Pants
Legs
Fortify Magicka
20 pts
Grand ring of Aegis
Ring
Shield
6%
I've tried using a MAXIFS statement:
=maxifs(Effect Value, Apparel Slot, "=Ring", Effect Type, "=Shield")
and that returns 0.18, as I'd expect. But I want it to return the name of this item, 'Brusef Amelion's Ring'. So I then tried using a vlookup on this value, but there doesn't seem to be the option to only lookup a value if ('Apparel Slot'='Ring' && 'Effect Type'='Shield'), for example.
I feel like there must be a way of nesting some specific functions here, but I can't quite figure it out.
Is there any way to do this while avoiding manually sorting and filtering my data before running each query?
Is this what you are looking for?
=DGET(A1:D6,"Description",{"Apparel slot","Effect Value";"Ring",MAXIFS(D2:D6,B2:B6,"Ring",C2:C6,"Shield")})
DGET function needs column headers to work with as you can see. So we want the value from the column Description. "Originally" this is a DGET function:
DGET(A2:F20,"price",{"Ticker";"Google"})
This is saying: Find price where ticker = google.
We can enhance this a bit by entering two criteria's this is done , or \ separated (depends on your country settings) like this:
DGET(A2:F20,"price",{"Ticker","Year;"Google",2020})
DGET(A2:F20;"price";{"Ticker"\"Year;"Google"\2020})
Find price where ticker = google and year = 2020.
Ofcource you can replace "Google" with a cell reference. Hope this helps.
I have two csv files containing countries and values that correspond to each country.
The data from CSV 1 denotes the number of times a country has been attacked on their own soil.
The data from CSV 2 denotes the number of times a country has attacked another country abroad.
There is overlap between the two sets of data and I intend to demonstrate values from both data sets in one grey scale range to be shown on a choropleth map.
I have some (obviously) phony data below to demonstrate what I'm working with.
TARGET.csv
country, code, value
Iran, IRN, 5
Russia, RUS, 4
United States, USA, 0
Egypt, EGY, 2
Spain, ESP, 1
ATTACKER.csv
country, code, value
Iran, IRN, 3
Russia, RUS, 9
United States, USA, 4
Egypt, EGY, 0
Spain, ESP, 0
There are more targets than attackers.
I want to ensure that I represent the data accurately, but do not know how I would create a normalized range of values between -1 and 1.
It is my understanding that displaying the data in this way would accurately represent the reality best, but I feel like I may be wrong.
In summation:
1) Am I thinking about this problem properly? Is this even the right way to think about displaying the data?
2) What is the proper language used to describe my question?
I am usually able to figure these things out but I'm stumped with dead-end search queries.
3) How do I make sure that my range is normalized. Notice that USA above appears as the only attacker who has never been a target, Would that make the USA the nearest value to +1, despite Russia's larger number of attacks?
I would appreciate whatever input you all can offer.
I am trying to present time series of multiple sensors on a single SSRS (v14) line chart
I need to plot N series, with each independently plotting the series data in the space provided by the chart (independent vertical axis)
More about the data
There can be anywhere from ~1-10 series
The challenge is that they are different orders of magnitude.
One might be degrees F (~0-212)
One might be Carbon ppm (~1-16)
One might be Ftlbs Thrust (~10k-100k)
the point is , they have no relation and can be very different
The exact value is not important. I can hide the vertical axis
More about what I am trying to do
The idea is to show the multiple time series, plotted together against time for the 4 hours before and after
'an event'. Its not the necessarily the exact value that is important. the subject matter expert would be looking for something odd (temperature falls, thrust spikes, etc).
Things I have tried
If there were just 2 series, i could easily use the 2nd axis available in the SSRS chart. Thats exactly the idea I am chasing. But in this case, I want N series to plot using its own axis.
I have tried stacking N transparent graphs on top of each other. This would be a really ugly solution, but SSRS even wont let you do it. It unstacks them for you.
I have experimented with the Allow Scale Breaks property on the Vert Axis. This would solve the problem but we don't like the 'double jagged line'
Turning on Logarithmic scale is a possibility. It does do a better job of displaying all the data. but its not really what we want. Its going to change the shape of data that ranges over a couple orders of magnitude.
I tried the sparkline component and am having the same problem.
This approach is essentially the same a Greg's answer above. I've had to do this same process in the past comparing trends of data even though the units were dissimilar.
I took a very simple approach of adding an additional column to the query that showed each value as a percentage of the maximum value in each series.
As an example (just 2 series here for clarity) I started with data like this in myTable
Series Month myValue
A Jan 4
A Feb 8
A Mar 16
B Jan 200
B Feb 300
B Mar 400
My Dataset query would be something like.
SELECT *, myValue / MAX(myValue) OVER(PARTITION BY Series) as myPlotValue FROM myTable
This gives us a final dataset which looks liek this.
Series Month myValue myPlotValue
A Jan 4 0.25
A Feb 8 0.5
A Mar 16 1
B Jan 200 0.5
B Feb 300 0.75
B Mar 400 1
As you can see all plot values are now between 0 and 1.
I created that charts using the myPlotValue field and had the option of using the original values from the myValue field as datapoint labels.
After talking to some math people, this is a standard problem and it is solved by a process called normalization of the data.
Essentially you are changing all the series to fit in a given range (usually 0-1)
You can scale and add an offset if that makes sense for your problem domain somehow.
https://www.statisticshowto.datasciencecentral.com/normalized/
In this page https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb441/CA/forest.m
I found a code named "Forest Fire"
I am trying to figure out how this code works for educational purposes.
Here are the rules:
Cells can be in 3 different states. State=0 is empty, state=1 is burning and state=2 is forest.
If one or more of the 4 neighbors of a cell is burning and it is forest (state=2) then the new state is burning (state=1).
A cell which is burning (state=1) becomes empty (state=0).
There is a low probablity (0.000005) of a forest cell (state=2) starting to burn on its own (from lightning).
There is a low probability (say, 0.01) of an empty cell becoming forest to simulate growth.
what it is not very clear how it works is...
sum = (veg(1:n,[n 1:n-1])==1) + (veg(1:n,[2:n 1])==1) + ...
(veg([n 1:n-1], 1:n)==1) + (veg([2:n 1],1:n)==1) ;
veg = 2*(veg==2) - ((veg==2) & (sum> 0 | (rand(n,n)< Plightning))) + ...
2*((veg==0) & rand(n,n)< Pgrowth) ;
There is no problem in running the code, it just I am confused what are these vectors (sum and veg). Especially what makes (veg(1:n,[n 1:n-1])==1).
What I see is that, both are matrixes and veg is the data of the plot (matriz with 0's 1's and 2's).
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Binary comparison operators on a matrix and a scalar return the matrix of elements of that binary comparison with the scalar and the corresponding element of the original matrix.
sum is a matrix in which each cell contains the number of adjacent cells in the corresponding matrix veg that are on fire (==1).
(veg(1:n,[n 1:n-1])==1) is a matrix of logical 1s and 0s (I don't know if the data type is static or dynamic) in which each cell equals 1 when the cell to the left of the corresponding one in veg is on fire (==1).
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb441/CA/
Look at the URL, go back up the tree to see the source.
The rule:
Cells can be in 3 different states. State=0 is empty, state=1 is burning and state=2 is forest.
If one or more of the 4 neighbors if a cell is burning and it is forest (state=2) then the new state is burning (state=1).
There is a low probablity (say 0.000005) of a forest cell (state=2) starting to burn on its own (from lightning).
A cell which is burning (state=1) becomes empty (state=0).
There is a low probability (say, 0.01) of an empty cell becoming forest to simulate growth.
The array is considered to be toroidly connected, so that fire which burns to left side will start fires on the right. The top and bottom are similarly connected.
The update code:
sum = (veg(1:n,[n 1:n-1])==1) + (veg(1:n,[2:n 1])==1) + ...
(veg([n 1:n-1], 1:n)==1) + (veg([2:n 1],1:n)==1) ;
veg = ...
2*(veg==2) - ((veg==2) & (sum> 0 | (rand(n,n)< Plightning))) + ...
2*((veg==0) & rand(n,n)< Pgrowth) ;
Note that the toroidal connection is implemented by the ordering of subscripts.
I have a chart where the x axis is comprised of dates. I give the chart data rows, with each row corresponding to a unique date, but occasionally dates are missing. Currently, the line chart's series just connects the existing points with a straight line. What I want is for the line to stop before non-existing datapoints such that the missing points are obvious.
Let me know if I can provide more information.
I would customize the Empty Points properties for that series, e.g. setting the Empty Points / Color property to "No Color".
For more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207051.aspx