Dashboard ideas from Wall Street Journal

Posted by CH Leong on Sunday, December 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

The Wall Street Journal have a lot of good looking charts which I draw my dashboard ideas. You can hardly find any in BusinessWeek or Fortune nowadays.  The chart from WSJ below shows a complex story of European bank revenues from equity capital markets deals(ECM).

Chart from WSJ

Chart from WSJ

To create such a chart in Excel, I placed a stacked column chart on Excel’s primary axis and a line chart on the secondary axis.  To replicate the exact look, I applied more chart formatting tricks.  The result is largely faithful to the original. I am trying to demostrate Excel’s capability to produce professional looking charts and dashboards.

WSJ chart in Excel

WSJ chart in Excel

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