V7.2 of XLCubed is released soon and we thought we’d take the opportunity to run through one of the new features that you’ll be seeing, Pareto Charts.
The Pareto Principle is often referred to as the 80-20 rule, that 80% of outcomes are attributable to 20% of causes. They are named after Vilfredo Pareto who lived in Italy in the 19thcentury and observed that 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the people. Pareto charts have both bar charts and a line graph where the bars represent individual values and the line represents the cumulative total.
So how do you use Pareto Charts from XLCubed? Very simply, within a grid you right-click on the column header to access XLCubed’s right-click menu, Grid Charts and Add Pareto Analysis.
Take this simple grid showing Reseller Sales for Product Model Categories for Canadian cities:
Right-clicking on All Products to Add Pareto Analysis brings up this window:
Click OK to return to the workbook – you will see that we have a chart showing that the top 9 cities provide some 80% of the sales.
You could also include the rolling total and percentage in your Pareto Chart.
Notice that we now also have some extra columns on the grid showing the cumulative total of all sales, the sales percentage per category and the cumulative percentage.
So that’s Pareto Charts – in a nutshell, an easy to use graphical tool which ties directly into dynamic XLCubed grids.