Summary

I ran into this chart while looking for examples of XY scatter plots and couldn't resist re-building it, following the instructions outlined way back in 2000 I think. Unfortunately the original link no longer works.

The exercise is to verify the value of pi by plotting the circumference vs. radius of a number of objects measured in a lab. Here is the data:

circumference radius
4.08 0.66
11.94 1.89
13.18 1.98
16.34 2.62
21.78 3.62
30.16 4.78

Here is the original result:

Calculation of pi scatter chart original version

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Hi - I'm Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.