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I have 3 pieces of information: a list of products, a list of features and a list of dates those features will be available. How can I graph that information in a meaningful chart?

  • I want to show a high level view of when different features will be complete on different products, but I can't come up with a clever way to do it.

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    Typically, things visualized over time should be plotted left to right, though this isn't a hard and fast rule its a safe starting point. Since it doesn't seem you have any metrics unless you created some (like days to completion, development duration, etc), the y-axis of a typical horizontal time chart would only serve as a grouping mechanism for something like product type. This puts you pretty clearly in the category of a typical Gantt chart. However you make like to do something more interesting like the following I recently saw: http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com

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a bubble chart maybe, if you could convert some variable to numbers..

Neville Zammit

I have several follow up questions: - What is the most important take away message, is it simply the dates that features will be complete? - Are the features sequential (one can't be added before the second is completed) or are they independent of each other? - Are the features the same on each product, or are they completely different for each product, or a mixture of the two?

Heather Deacon

A bubble chart is very helpful, by my opinion. Please try 5dchart Add-In for MS Excel for real 3D bubble charting. http://5dchart.com

Roman Demyanets

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