How to create a Waterfall Chart without coding
You need to visualize financial analysis, and you know a Waterfall Chart is the perfect chart for the job.
But when you try to make one in traditional tools like Excel, you realize it requires manual calculations and complex formatting. You waste hours looking for tutorials or templates, only to end up with a static image that you can't interact with.
You need a better way.
The Problem with Traditional Tools
Most BI tools treat the Waterfall Chart as an "advanced" feature. They require:
- Specific data formatting (that takes hours).
- Installing custom scripts or plugins.
- Writing code (Python/R) just to get the dots to show up.
Create a Waterfall Chart in Datastripes
Datastripes makes advanced visualization accessible.
- Upload Data: Just drag your file.
- Select Chart: Choose Waterfall Chart from the library of 100+ visuals.
- Auto-Map: Our engine automatically detects the best columns for the visualization.
No plugins, no coding. Just instant insights.
Export to Presentation
Once your Waterfall Chart looks perfect, you don't just take a screenshot. You can export it directly to an editable PowerPoint slide or share it as an interactive link.
Why Waterfall Chart Matters
A Waterfall Chart is a type of data visualization that helps in understanding the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. It is commonly used in financial analysis to illustrate how an initial value is affected by a series of intermediate positive and negative values, leading to a final result.
Thus, a Waterfall Chart is perfect for showing flows and relationships in your data. Whether you're analyzing customer journeys, resource allocations, or any process with inputs and outputs, this chart type makes complex information easy to understand.
The Waterfall Chart is just one of many advanced charts you can create effortlessly with Datastripes and that are hard to build in Excel: discover more of those underrated chart types and how to create them in our blog series.
Stop struggling with complex custom scripts and coding: you probably don't have to. That's why we built Datastripes: to empower you to create stunning visualizations like the Waterfall Chart quickly and easily.
Create your Waterfall Chart now and see how easy advanced charts can be.