Excel Infographics
Infographics in excel is the way of showing the information or summary report through attractive charts, graphs, and images. In other words infographics are the art of visualizing the data using external elements or images. They are different from dashboards and require the architectural mind to build your own infographics in excel.
How to Create People Graph Infographics in Excel?
Now we will see some of the examples of creating infographics in excel.
People Graph is the new additional feature available from Excel 2013 versions onwards. This is a graph available with Excel 2013 onwards versions under the INSERT tab.
For example, below is an organization’s departmental manpower and for this data, we will show you how to create people graph infographics in excel.
Step 1 – Copy the above data to excel worksheet, select the data to go to the INSERT tab, and click on “People Graph”.
Step 2 – First, it will show about numbers of this particular app.
Step 3 – Click on the “Data” icon at the top.
Step 4 – Choose “Select Data”
Step 5 – Now it will show sample data preview but at the bottom, it shows how many rows and columns in excel are selected. Now click on “Create” to get your first People Graph.
We get the following People Graph.
Not all the departments are showing here we need to expand the chart to see all the department data.
From the data, the tab changes the title of the chart.
Click on “Settings” options to format the chart.
In this “Settings” we have three options i.e. “Type”, “theme”, and “Shape”.
From the type, we can choose a different kind of people graph.
Under “Theme” we can change the color background of the chart.
Under “Shape” we can change icons of the chart.
How to Use External Images to Create Infographics?
We have seen people graph infographics in excel, we can build infographics by using external images as well. For the same data, we will use a human image from outside excel.
I have downloaded the below human image from the internet into excel worksheet.
First, insert a bar chart in excel for the data.
Now we have a chart like this.
What you have to do is copy the human image >>> select the bar and paste it.
We need to format the chart to make it more beautiful. Select the bar and press Ctrl + 1 to open the formatting tab to the right side.
Make the “Gap Width” as 0%.
Now go to “Fill” and click on “Fill”.Make the fill as “Picture or Texture Fill” and check the option of “Stack and Scale Width”.
Now our chart looks like this.
Now assume we have a segregation of “Male” and “Female” employees.
In the infographic chart, we need to show male and female human images. I have downloaded male and female images from the internet.
Select the data and insert the “Stacked Bar” chart.
Now we have a chart like this.
Copy the “Male” image and paste it on an orange-colored bar.
Copy “Female” image and paste it on a yellow-colored bar.
Select the male bar and format the data series as we did in the previous example. Do the same thing for the “Female” chart as well and we have a segregation of “Male” and “Female” separately now.
We do one more thing to show male and female employees differently. Arrange the data in the below manner.
I have converted male employee’s numbers to, now we can see male employees to left and female employees to the right.
Example #3
Now we will build one more infographic before we wind up this article. Look at the below data of department-wise salary numbers.
For this data, we will build the below kind of infographic chart.
Select the data and insert the Line chart in excel.
Now we have a chart like this.
Change the line color and font colors.
Copy the below visual from the internet to excel.
Select the line marker now.
After selecting the markers to paste the copied image.
Now you can add extra elements to the chart as per the requirement.
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This has been a guide to infographics in excel. Here we discuss how to create infographics (People Graph) in excel using external images along with examples and downloadable excel template. You can learn more about excel functions from the following articles –
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