Creating Sunburst Chart in Excel

Creating Sunburst Chart in Excel

What is a Sunburst Chart? (1/2) • A Sunburst chart is an inbuilt chart in Microsoft Excel 2016 and later versions.

• Like the Tree Map chart, a Sunburst chart is also used to display Hierarchical data, but in a circular format.

• It is a great way to show relational data in a compact form.

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What is a Sunburst Chart? (2/2) • In Sunburst chart, each level of hierarchy is represented as a ring.

• The chart can be used to visualize the contribution made by each subsegment in a data set.

• It gives you a pictorial representation of how the data is spread across different segments.

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Creating a Sunburst Chart - Example • Here is a table showing revenues of different categories of electronic products in different countries.

1➢ Organize Steps to create a Sunburst Chart

2➢ Insert

the data for the Sunburst chart

the Sunburst Chart

3➢ Format the chart

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Organize the data

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For the Sunburst Chart, we need the data in 3 columns.

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In our example. ➢ The first column should represent the countries ➢ The second column the product ➢ The third column the revenue contribution by each product

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Countries USA USA USA USA USA Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada South America South America South America South America South America Africa Africa Africa Africa Africa Europe Europe Europe Europe Europe China China China China China India India India India India

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Products Revenues Mobile 2,970 Television 1,898 Refrigerator 1,222 Washing Machine 2,944 Air Conditioners 1,413 Mobile 693 Television 1,249 Refrigerator 5,000 Washing Machine 998 Air Conditioners 1,422 Mobile 1,188 Television 549 Refrigerator 3,339 Washing Machine 329 Air Conditioners 1,367 Mobile 495 Television 1,998 Refrigerator 2,222 Washing Machine 84 Air Conditioners 899 Mobile 1,287 Television 1,299 Refrigerator 1,278 Washing Machine 156 Air Conditioners 396 Mobile 1,782 Television 2,797 Refrigerator 3,333 Washing Machine 55 Air Conditioners 1,439 Mobile 1,436 Television 2,098 Refrigerator 5,611 Washing Machine 143 Air Conditioners 935

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Insert the Sunburst Chart • Once you make the selection, you get a Sunburst chart (as shown below).

• To insert a Sunburst Chart, • Click on the data table. Then Go to insert, and within the chart section click on Insert Hierarchy Chart.

From the drop down select Sunburst Chart.

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• The inner circle represents the countries and the outer circle the revenue contribution by each product.

Format the Sunburst Chart

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Remove the chart title.

Remove chart border.

Format data labels.

To Format the data Labels, Right click on the data Label and Select Format Data Labels. You get the below dialogue box. Format as required

• To change the design or color scheme of the chart, just click on the chart and Go to the Chart Design tab and Select from a list of available chart styles.

• Also, you can change the colors and layout by selecting the change Colors and Quick layout drop down.

Quick Chart layouts

Change Colors

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Chart Styles

3

Format the Sunburst Chart

Insert a Chart title in the white space at the middle of the inner Circle.

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Advantages

Sunburst Chart – Advantages and Limitations

The Sunburst is useful when the data set has multiple levels of segmentation.

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It also cannot be used if we want to see the time pattern for multiple variables in a data set.

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Limitations

It gives a pictorial representation of how the data is spread across different segments.

These Charts cannot be used if the data set cannot be divided into segments and sub segments.

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