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Upload your Excel data to Chart Studio's grid

Create a 3-D scatter plot and use view to change the angle of the axes in the figure. Figure scatter3(x,y,z,s) view(40,35) Corresponding entries in x, y, z, and s determine the location and size of each marker.

  1. From the Matplotlib documentation, you can generate a legend from a scatter plot with getting the handles and labels of the output of the scatter function. The result of the code is shown in the picture below. Note that I generated more data points in order to better see that the colormap is the same. Also, the output of ListedColorMap outputs.
  2. 3D Scatter Plots Introduction The 3D scatter plot displays trivariate points plotted in an X-Y-Z grid. It is particularly useful for investigating the relationships among these variables. The influence of a categorical variable may be investigated by using a different plotting symbol for each value of this variable.

Open the data file for this tutorial in Excel. You can download the file here in CSV format

Head to Chart Studio

Head to the Chart Studio Workspace and sign into your free Chart Studio account. Go to 'Import', click 'Upload a file', then choose your Excel file to upload. Your Excel file will now open in Chart Studio's grid. For more about Chart Studio's grid, see this tutorial

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Creating the Scatter Plot

Select '3D Scatter Plots' from the MAKE A PLOT button on menu bar.

Enable the Group By Option from the toolbar, and select the headers as shown in the figure. Finally click on Plot Button to generate the plot

Finalizing the Plot

We will now add some style elements to the generated plot.

Styling options are present on the left side of the plot. To set the background color, (1) Click on the 'Axis' selector on the options menu on the left side of the plot, (2) Click on the 'Lines' tab from the pop-up, (3) Set 'Background' to 'On', and (4) Select background color from the color pallete.

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Axes and Grid: Go to 'Lines' tab from 'Axis' Selector. (1) Set Grid Lines to 'On' and select white color from pop-up, (2) Set Zero Lines to 'On' and select white color from pop-up

Exporting the final chart

The final plot should look something like this:

You can export the finished plot to embed in the excel notebook. We also recommend adding the Chart Studio link to the excel for easy access to the interactive version. To get the link to the chart, click on the 'Share' button. To export the chart, as an image, click on 'EXPORT' button on the toolbar.

To add the Excel file to your workbook, click where you want to insert the picture inside Excel. On the INSERT tab inside Excel, click PICTURE. Locate the Chart Studio graph image that you downloaded and then double-click it:

MS Excel has standard chart types for this:

...or this: ...or this:

...but not this:

Scatter

(Fig. 1)

(Fig. 2) (Fig. 3)

The workbook below features a proper 3D scatterplot within MS Excel. The chart has these properties:

  • Display points with arbitrary X/Y/Z values
  • Rotate the plot freely in all three dimensions (see animated GIF 1MB, assembled from screenshots )
  • Zoom into the plot and shift projection
  • Option to color points according to X,Y, or Z value or a 4th column, using a macro (see Fig. 1)
  • Option to make 4D bubble plots (143kB JPG) according to X,Y, or Z value or a 4th column, using a macro (see Fig. 2)
  • Vertical leading lines (143kB JPG) for the plotted points (see Fig. 3)
  • Option to create dynamic labels for each point, using a macro

Inspired by Andy Pope's 'Simulated 3d XY scatter'http://www.andypope.info/charts.htm

This ZIP archive contains an Excel woorkbook with VBA macros and a PDF manual. The VBA code is free software. See GNU General Public License for details.

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Download Excel3Dscatterplotv2_1.zip (3.1 MB ZIP).

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You are encouraged to send me nice samples of plots you have created with the help of this macro:
Gabor Doka: scaplo {at} doka {dot} ch

If you encounter problems, please contact me: Gabor Doka: scaplo {at} doka {dot} ch

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The worksheet above was created with Excel 14.0 (2011), but should be running on other versions too (However Excel 2008 for Mac does not have any VBA macro capability).

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The 'Excel 3D Scatter Plot' macros and workbook are provided free of charge. They may be distributed freely provided that all the worksheets, macros and documentation are always distributed together, in whole and unchanged. The 'Excel 3D Scatter Plot' macros may not be sold or offered for sale, or included with another software product offered for sale. Companies that distribute public domain/freeware/shareware software for profit are expressly prohibited from distributing the 'Excel 3D Scatter Plot' workbook.

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