50 Best Cities for Finding a Job [Incell Dashboard using Excel]

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We all know that incell charts are a very cool way to explore and visualize data. Personally I like them so much that I have written several tutorials on it here. Today we will see how a Job dashboard on “50 best cities for finding a job” originally prepared by Indeed job search engine can be recreated in Excel using In-cell charts.

The original dashboard looked like this:
unemployment-job-search-dasbhoard

We can re-create it in Excel with the following steps.

Step1 : Get the data

Of course this is very simple. I went to the web page and copied the data. Pasted it in to a text file and cleaned it up until it is ready. Then I imported the data to excel by using Import Text to Columns feature.

Step 2 : Find the symbols for Person and Employment vacancy icons

symbols-to-use
This is even more simpler. I just went to Insert > Symbol and selected “Webdings” font. The person icon is available there. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any character that looks like a chair. So I have used the computer icon (available in wingdings font).

Step 3 : Create the In-cell Chart

All we have to do is write REPT Excel Formula.

Step 4 : Add the final touches

set-custom-cell-formatting-codecustom-cell-formatting-code-exampleIf you look at the original chart, it also has up and down arrows to show when the ranking of the city has changed compared to previous reporting period. I have used custom cell formatting to achieve this effect. The custom formatting code used is:

[Blue]"? "0;[Red]"? "0;;

I have also adjusted the font colors and did some table formatting (like adding borders, removing gridlines etc.).

Final In-cell Dashboard of 50 Best Cities for Finding a Job

This is the final outcome
incell-dashboard

Download the Incell Dashboard on Best Cities to Find Jobs

You can download the in-cell job dashboard from here [.zip version]

Conclusions

As I said, in-cell charts are lot more fun, lot more easier to build and play with and they add variety to your dashboards, reports and general visualizations.  Experiment with an in-cell chart today see if they work for you.

Further Resources on In-cell Charting & Dashboards

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One Response to “How to compare two Excel sheets using VLOOKUP? [FREE Template]”

  1. Danny says:

    Maybe I missed it, but this method doesn't include data from James that isn't contained in Sara's data.

    I added a new sheet, and named the ranges for Sara and James.

    Maybe something like:
    B2: =SORT(UNIQUE(VSTACK(SaraCust, JamesCust)))
    C2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,SaraCust,SaraPaid,"Missing")
    D2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,JamesCust, JamesPaid,"Missing")
    E2: =IF(ISERROR(C2#+D2#),"Missing",IF(C2#=D2#,"Yes","No"))

    Then we can still do similar conditional formatting. But this will pull in data missing from Sara's sheet as well.

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