{"id":699,"date":"2016-03-22T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:24:16","slug":"data-visualization-and-exploration-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/data-visualization-and-exploration-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization and Exploration In Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use Excel&#8217;s data formatting, commenting and filtering tools to help visualize and clarify your data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlighting:\u00a0<\/strong>Select cells and click on Home-Fill Color to highlight cells:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/free-excel-tips\/highlight-cells-in-excel.jpg\" alt=\"highlighted cells\" width=\"515\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commenting:\u00a0<\/strong>To add comments to any cell, click on Data-Insert Comment:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/insert-comment-in-Excel.jpg\" alt=\"insert comment in Excel\" width=\"463\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/insert-comment-in-Excel.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/insert-comment-in-Excel-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/insert-comment-in-Excel-115x61.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subset:\u00a0<\/strong>To select a subset of your data, click on Data-Filter and select the desired content:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subset-data-in-excel.jpg\" alt=\"data subset\" width=\"596\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subset-data-in-excel.jpg 596w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subset-data-in-excel-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/subset-data-in-excel-115x97.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excel will simplify and streamline your data for ease of analysis:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/highlighted-subset-of-excel-data.jpg\" alt=\"select subset\" width=\"513\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/highlighted-subset-of-excel-data.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/highlighted-subset-of-excel-data-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/highlighted-subset-of-excel-data-115x101.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excel has many powerful\u00a0data exploration and visualization tools. Play with them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use Excel&rsquo;s data formatting, commenting and filtering tools to help visualize and clarify your data. Highlighting:&nbsp;Select cells and click on Home-Fill Color to highlight cells: Commenting:&nbsp;To add comments to any cell, click on Data-Insert Comment: Subset:&nbsp;To select a subset of your data, click on Data-Filter and select the desired content: Excel will simplify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,7],"tags":[202,184,41],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-six-sigma","tag-data-mining","tag-data-visualization","tag-excel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}