Creating multiple graphs from single data table - charts

Question

I am trying to create a Google Spreadsheet for my sales for my business, that is happening on several different online portals e.g. Amazon, eBay, My Website, etc.
This is what I created:
But if I create this way then I do not get any graphs, which I really do need.
Though I tried other ways too, in which I had the portals in row 1 and dates in Column A, but in that case, I can have only one parameter, either No of Sales or Total Sales (rupees)
And the graph for this comes out nicely:
However, in this case, I would have to create separate sheet to record the Sales in Amount.
Is there a way to work this situation out, where I can create one table, and have graphs showing me the data as required as well?

Answer 1

This is a good application for Pivot Tables. Starting with your source data, you can either create pivot tables from the GUI (Data > Pivot Tables...) or by a formula using the QUERY function.
For example, this formula will create a table with portals in separate columns:
=QUERY(A:D,"SELECT B,SUM(C) WHERE A != '' GROUP BY B PIVOT A")
Note: A chart of this data requires that all cells be filled with numbers, so it's necessary that your source data includes zero values for portal/days with no sales, as shown in this sample data:
A B C D
Portal Date No of Sales Total Sales
Amazon June 18 33 45.62
Flipkart June 18 2 2.64
Biocarve June 18 3 4.32
Ebay June 18 0 0.00
Amazon June 19 22 37.01
Ebay June 19 2 3.52
Flipkart June 19 0 0.00
Biocarve June 19 0 0.00
Biocarve June 20 5 6.47
Flipkart June 20 1 1.45
Amazon June 20 8 10.69
Ebay June 20 0 0.00
The pivot table output is:
Date Amazon Biocarve Ebay Flipkart
6/18/2016 33 3 0 2
6/19/2016 22 0 2 0
6/20/2016 8 5 0 1
And the chart:
Likewise, this formula:
=query(A:D,"select B,SUM(D) WHERE A != '' GROUP BY B PIVOT A")
...tabulates the total sales, with this result:
Date Amazon Biocarve Ebay Flipkart
6/18/2016 45.62 4.32 0.00 2.64
6/19/2016 37.01 0.00 3.52 0.00
6/20/2016 10.69 6.47 0.00 1.45
You can also get all the summary data into one table, and produce a chart from that. (You need to customize your chart series to use left & right axes.)
The query:
=query(A:D,"select B,SUM(C),SUM(D) WHERE A != '' GROUP BY B PIVOT A")
The resulting table:
And an example chart from that table: