Confluence Charts with Excellentable – Some more use cases

Charts in Confluence are an extremely useful tool when you want to show data in a visual matter. Excellentable allows you to create dynamic and interactive charts and share them with your teams. Anyone can look at a bunch of data in a spreadsheet and maybe pull out a couple of things from it, but the moment someone converts that data into a chart changes everything. Charts can take large pieces of data, or several pieces of data, and allow any user to see basic things from a single glance. In this blog, we will be talking about Column Charts and what instances they can be used in.

What Confluence charts can Excellentable create?

Excellentable offers several widely used charts to our users. What charts are available? Well, the fan favorites of Bar, Column, Pie, Area, Line, and Scatter charts are what we offer. We know there are plenty of other charts available out there, and we do plan on adding more, but we started with some of the big ones. In today’s blog, we’ll be looking at Line Charts and Scatter Plot Chart

What is a Line Chart?

A line chart (aka line plot, line graph) uses points connected by a line from left to right to demonstrate changes in value. The horizontal axis depicts a continuous progression, often that of time, while the vertical axis reports values for a metric of interest across that progression.

Use Case 1 – New Subscriptions Over Time

As an executive for my company, I wanted to see a list of new subscriptions for the year of 2022. Specifically, I want to see how new subscriptions grew over the year of 2022 month by month. After getting the number together I drop them all into an Excellentable.

After inserting the data I can easily convert the data into a chart. It’s just a few clicks and there it is!

Now that I have this chart I can use it while I’m giving presentations to stakeholders, executives, investors, etc. It gives a simple view of how much the subscriptions have grown over just one year.

What is a Scatter Plot Chart?

A scatter plot (aka scatter chart, scatter graph) uses dots to represent values for two different numeric variables. The position of each dot on the horizontal and vertical axis indicates values for an individual data point. Scatter plots are used to observe relationships between variables. Scatter plots’ primary uses are to observe and show relationships between two numeric variables. The dots in a scatter plot not only report the values of individual data points but also patterns when the data are taken as a whole.

Use Case 2 – Best Time to Fish

I’m a professional fisherman. I’ve been trying to find the best time and temperature to catch the most fish. To figure that out I start recording the exact temperature when I catch a fish and keep adding to it over the course of 6 months. After 6 months I get this.

I take that data and drop it into a Scatter Plot chart to see if there is any sort of correlation or if it doesn’t have any effect. After creating the chart I get this.

Based on what I’m seeing there really isn’t a correlation. There does seem to be more at the 60-70 degree Fahrenheit mark, but it isn’t super conclusive. After doing this I find out there really isn’t a correlation where I’m fishing. Time to figure out another data set to improve my catch rate.

What else can charts do?

Just as Excellentable is always adding, Charts will be as well. As I mentioned earlier, more charts will be coming, improvements to the formatting and function of charts, and even things like creating an Excellentable from a Confluence table, just like creating a confluence graph from the table. All kinds of fun things!!! Look forward to improvements and changes in the future.

Visit our Excellentable help page to learn more or to the Excellentable page to start a free trial.

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