Excel 2016: the elephant (not) in the room

Microsoft is apparently waking up and getting a bit more serious regarding visualization in Excel. Excel 2016 gets a few more chart types but, except for treemaps, nothing really new. We could make them with a little of work, but it’s nice to have them ready to use.

Here are the new chart types in Excel 2016:

Boxplots (box-and-wiskers)

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Histogram

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Pareto

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Sunburst (I prefer to call them multi-level pies)

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Waterfall

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Forecasts

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So, what’s the missing elephant? For me, the elephant is the ability to turn every single chart into small multiples. I would trade all those charts above for that functionality, any day.

What’s your missing elephant?

These images come from a presentation by Scott Ruble you can watch below: