Archive for July, 2008
500+ subscribers, great content, wow this site must be good !
By Chandoo at 31 July, 2008, 2:45 pm | 12 Comments
For the first time since starting this blog, I have crossed 500 RSS Subscribers today. Exactly an year ago, this blog had a small number of 25 readers and today the count reached to 505, with over a hundred of them reading updates through email. I am very happy to find this many passionate readers [...]
Read More >>Cool infographics around the web - [july 31]
By Chandoo at 31 July, 2008, 11:48 am | 0 Comments
Time for another round of cool charting / info-graphic ideas around the web.
Most Popular Baby Names - all the way from 1880
Nametrends is a cool website totally dedicated to analyzing and showing baby name trends. They have pretty interesting stuff like, how baby names ending with -lie (charlie, willie, ellie etc.) fared from [...]
Read More >>Want to Feed RSS to your Excel Sheet? Read this!
By Chandoo at 30 July, 2008, 5:56 pm | 9 Comments
RSS feeds are everywhere. So much that you cannot avoid them in your data processing, analytics or day to day spreadsheet needs.
If you can get the RSS feeds to excel sheet you can do pretty interesting things with it, like:
Prepare a sheet to watch deals on Amazon, Craigslist, Deals2buy and other favorite sites
Watch news, [...]
Windows Mojave Experiment Kicks Ass
Wow, this is totally cool. A great lesson in creating buzz.
The folks at windows vista wanted to convince people that Vista is indeed a good operating system and upgradable from XP. But there are lot of bad opinions floating around and end users are more or less confused about it. Personally I have rarely used [...]
Excel Links of the week
Here is a quick round up of excel posts from few of the awe some blogs around the web:
At PTS Blog, Jon provides excellent tutorial on adding target lines to your bar charts to show target vs. actual performance. He has several other tweaks for your category axis as well, just read the other posts [...]
11 very useful excel keyboard shortcuts you may not know
By Chandoo at 29 July, 2008, 3:48 pm | 11 Comments
- During formula typing, adjusts the reference type, abs to relative, otherwise repeats last action
+ - Inserts current date
+ - Copies value from cell above to current cell
+ - Edits a cell comment
+ - Opens macro dialog box
+ - Auto sum selected cells and places value in cell [...]
Read More >>Which teacher inspired you most?
When I was in school we had a maths teacher named BVN. He used to teach advanced math (like trigonometry, calculus) for class 7 onwards. We used to fear him a lot because he is the strictest of them all. Finally when I got to seventh I met him as a teacher. And boy, he [...]
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