{"id":316,"date":"2012-02-18T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2012-02-18T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T21:55:06","slug":"spider-charts-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/spider-charts-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Charts in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Tushar Mehta posted about his <a title=\"Custom Radar Chart add-in\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydoseofexcel.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/17\/tm-custom-radar-chart-add-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Custom Radar Chart add-in<\/a> on the Daily Dose of Excel blog. These are also known as Spider charts, and I&#8217;ve never created one, except as a demo in an Excel class, when someone asked about them. It probably looked like the one shown below, or the Excel 97 version of that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"radarchart02\" border=\"0\" alt=\"radarchart02\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/radarchart02.png\" width=\"339\" height=\"294\"><\/p>\n<p>Radar charts can be tough to interpret, and <a title=\"Excel chart expert, Jon Peltier\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/72kR1\" target=\"_blank\">Excel chart expert, Jon Peltier<\/a>, suggests several <a title=\"alternative chart types\" href=\"http:\/\/peltiertech.com\/WordPress\/spider-chart-alternatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">alternative chart types<\/a> that you can use, instead of a radar chart.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy, I was surprise to find this radar chart \/ spider chart while wandering the streets today. It might not be an effective way to present data, but it does make a nice roof!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0729\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0729\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0729.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\"> <\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Tushar Mehta posted about his Custom Radar Chart add-in on the Daily Dose of Excel blog. These are also known as Spider charts, and I&#8217;ve never created one, except as a demo in an Excel class, when someone asked about them. It probably looked like the one shown below, or the Excel 97 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/spider-charts-in-the-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spider Charts in the Wild&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-add-ins"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spider Charts in the Wild - Debra D&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/spider-charts-in-the-wild\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spider Charts in the Wild - Debra D&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week, Tushar Mehta posted about his Custom Radar Chart add-in on the Daily Dose of Excel blog. 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