Gantt Charts

This mini-tutorial illustrates the use of the Bar Origin graphing role in a creative fashion to create a rudimentary Gantt chart. A Gantt chart displays a time line showing when various tasks occur in a product schedule. The use of graphing roles, and assigning graphing dimensions to graphing roles, presented by Analyica 4.0 provides a very flexible graphing framework, mastery of which allows you to present an extremely wide variety of data presentations. This tutorial provides one example that may help you develop a further mastery of graphing roles.

Components of a Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is composed of task segments, each segment composed of three pieces of information:

• The task that the segment belongs to.
• The start time for the task segment
• The end time for the task segment.

In the graph above, The task segment at the top left is part of task h, starts at 1 and ends at 2.

Arrange the Data

Steps: 1. Download this starting model: Gantt tutorial.ana. To download, right-click on the link and select "Save Target As...". 2. Start Analytica 4.0, and load the model you just saved.