Question : Using Excel - How to best display date and time events in timeline or chart format?

Looking for a solution that would allow me to run a macro that would take the Date and Time of each error and present them is such a way that any patterns would be made more obvious. A Timeline or some sort of Chart I suppose, but I really don't know much about Excel Charts.  I would also like to know the delta time difference between the events in Days, Hours, Minutes. Open to all suggestions and any examples would be welcome.

Thanks,
Brian E

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EE-Error-Event-Timeline.xls (17 KB)  (File Type Details) 

Date Time Data to Timeline or Chart

Answer : Using Excel - How to best display date and time events in timeline or chart format?

Hello Brian E,

you can use an XY Scatter chart for that kind of data. Chart the date values as the X values and the time as the Y values, then format the axes. In the attached example, the Y axis increments are 2 hours. The X axis has a marker ever 14 days. Other options are possible, just say what you need.

I've also put in a few columns to calculate and display the delta. For this to work, I've sorted the data to be ascending, so the oldest date/time is on top.

cheers, teylyn

Copy-of-EE-Error-Event-Timeline.xls (30 KB)  (File Type Details) 

XY chart