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Excel - heat maps
Hi there
I am currently collating the results of a worldwide survey wherein capabilities have been measured by country and particular subject/topic on a scale of 1-5 - currently it's actually words (none, limited, moderate, significant, extensive)but thinking I can easily convert this with find and replace to numbers).
I want to create a heat map of the results onto a world map to show how our resources (aka capabilities, value 1-5) are dispersed.
Using conditional formatting, colour scale by each individual topic presumably?
Would you be able to provide me with more of a breakdown of how to go about this or would you need more scope?
Many thanks in advance,
Lauren
RE: Excel - heat maps
Hi Lauren,
Thank you for the forum question.
You can highlight cells with colours if a condition is true. If you want to assign a colour if the cell contain none, limited, moderate, significant or extensive (or 1 to 5), you will need to select all the cells you want to add the colours to. If it is text click Conditional Formatting-Highlight cell rules-Text that Contains. Type the first word you want to highlight. Decide the colour under formatting and the same for the rest of the options.
I hope this can guide you in the right direction.
Kind regards
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RE: Excel - heat maps
Hi
Thanks for this.
In direct relation to this question but unrelated to transferring it to a heat map, I would really appreciate your help.
So as I advised, I have now collated all of the answers to a worldwide questionnaire, by country and region, wherein capabilities have been measured by particular subject/topic on a scale of none, limited, moderate, significant and extensive.
So my data source looks something like this
Country Region Audit private Audit public Audit O
Country1 Europe Extensive Moderate Signif
Country2 AsiaPac Limited None Limited
Country3 Europe Moderate None Extensiv
Country4 MENA None Signif Limited
There are over 100 countries and over 100 questions (i.e. audit private, audit public etc) that can be grouped by topic (e.g. audit, tax, etc) but because each question needs to be in a column without subheaders, I am unable to do this.
I want to show clearly where (countries but more specifically regions) have answered 'extensive' but when I pivot, it gives me only the count of answered, even when I filter to extensive on a question.
Could you please advise how best I go about analysing this data set to show the regions where we have extensive etc? I have tried filtering to extensive within the pivot but it still only gives me the count.
Rows - audit private, audit public, audit 0 (i.e. qus) and I've also dragged these into Values and put my Region in the Column...
Thanks so much in advance,
Lauren
RE: Excel - heat maps
Hi Lauren,
PivotTables can only count text strings, but what I suggest you can do. Change the format of the PivotTable to Show in Tabular Form. You can do this on the Design tab in the Layout group under Report Layout. Then place the headings as rows in the pivot table, in values you need to count the answers from the survey.
I do not know if this can return the answers you need, but it is how I manipulate PivotTables if I work with text string.
I hope this can help you.
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
Tel: 0207 987 3777
Best STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
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