Graphing customer spending

[Tom Dunlap]

I'm trying to figure out how to graph customer spending and make it easy to visualize. Let's say that there are 1,500 clients. There are a few who spend a lot of money but most spend very little.

Does anyone know of a computer program that can be used to graph this?

The catch is that none of the spending data is digitized. All I have is a list of numbers that I would have to enter manually.

 

[stevebullman]

how do you do your accounting tom? ive just started using quickbooks and i think that displays graphs and various reports and multiple formats

 

[Tom Dunlap]

This is a theoretical example of a project that I'm trying to illustrate.

 

[stevebullman]

this any good?

http://www.hearne.co.uk/graphing/

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Stve,

Those might work but I'm looking for a freebie

 

[jerseywild]

Tom
I never have found anything better than microsoft excel to do spread sheets and graphs. My wife enters receipts in categories that I have made up. Fuel, parts, repairs and so on. I can chart the use of these items and place them on a graph to track expense to earnings ratios for each month.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I'm not real familiar with Excel but I'll look into it.

thanks!

 

[dhuffnmu]

I second the use of excel. Very easy to use with a little playing around with it. Probably one of the best programs to get the charts and comparisons that you are looking for.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

This was a simple solution. Excel worked out nicely. I've got the data and now I'm working with the graphs and charts to be able to visualize the data.

Thanks!

 

[Nickrosis]

For a free office package, you can use OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org).

Excel is great for that, plus you can put the graphs into Word or PowerPoint easily. Once you get the data in, it's fun to manipulate it from there.