Week 13
ANALYZING DATA WITH PIE CHARTS, LINE CHARTS, AND WHAT-IF ANALYSIS TOOLS
OBJECTIVES
Objective 1: Chart Data with a Pie Chart
Absolute cell reference A cell reference that refers to cells by their fixed position in a worksheet; an
absolute cell reference remains the same when the formula is copied.
Chart sheet A workbook sheet that contains only a chart.
Data marker A column, bar, area, dot, pie slice, or other symbol in a chart that represents a single data
point; related data points form a data series.
Data point A value that originates in a worksheet cell and that is represented in a chart by a data
marker.
Data series Related data points represented by data markers; each data series has a unique color or
pattern represented in the chart legend.
Enterprise fund A municipal government fund that reports income and expenditures related to
municipal services for which a fee is charged in exchange for goods or services.
Fund A sum of money set aside for a specific purpose.
General fund The term used to describe money set aside for the normal operating activities of a
government entity such as a city.
Legend A chart element that identifies the patterns or colors that are assigned to the categories in the
chart.
Pie chart A chart that shows the relationship of each part to a whole.
Relative cell reference In a formula, the address of a cell based on the relative positions of the cell that
contains the formula and the cell referred to in the formula.
Objective 2: Format a Pie Chart
3-D The shortened term for three-dimensional, which refers to an image that appears to have all three
spatial dimensions—length, width, and depth.
Bevel A shape effect that uses shading and shadows to make the edges of a shape appear to be curved
or angled.
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Chart area The entire chart and all of its elements.
Explode The action of pulling out one or more pie slices from a pie chart for emphasis.
Objective 3: Edit a Workbook and Update a Chart
Objective 4: Use Goal Seek to Perform What-If Analysis
Goal Seek A what-if analysis tool that finds the input needed in one cell to arrive at the desired result
in another cell.
What-if analysis The process of changing the values in cells to see how those changes affect the
outcome of formulas in a worksheet.
Objective 5: Design a Worksheet for What-If Analysis
Base The starting point when you divide the amount of increase by it to calculate the rate of increase.
Formula AutoComplete An Excel feature which, after typing an = (equal sign) and the beginning letter
or letters of a function name, displays a list of function names that match the typed letter(s).
Order of operations The mathematical rules for performing multiple calculations within a formula.
Percent for new value = base percent + percent of increase The formula for calculating a percentage
by which a value increases by adding the base percentage—usually 100%—to the percent increase.
Percentage rate of increase The percent by which one number increases over another number.
Rate = amount of increase/base The mathematical formula to calculate a rate of increase.
Value after increase = base x percent for new value The formula for calculating the value after an
increase by multiplying the original value—the base—by the percent for new value (see the Percent for
new value formula).
Objective 6: Answer What-If Questions by Changing Values in a Worksheet
Objective 7: Chart Data with a Line Chart
Axis A line that serves as a frame of reference for measurement and which borders the chart plot area.
Category axis The area along the bottom of a chart that identifies the categories of data; also referred
to as the x-axis.
Line chart A chart type that displays trends over time; time displays along the bottom axis and the data
point values are connected with a line.
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Major unit The value in a chart’s value axis that determines the spacing between tick marks and
between the gridlines in the plot area.
Plot area The area bounded by the axes of a chart, including all the data series.
Value axis A numerical scale on the left side of a chart that shows the range of numbers for the data
points; also referred to as the y-axis.
x-axis Another name for the category axis.
y-axis Another name for the value axis.
Objective 8: Create a Map Chart and a Funnel Chart
Funnel chart A type of chart that shows values across the stages in a process.
Map chart A type of chart that compares values and shows categories across geographical regions; for
example, across countries, states, counties, and regions.
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