Hui, one of our in-house excel ninjas at Chandoo.org Forums, has asked an interesting question.
Microsoft is already planning the next version of Excel and is looking for our feedback into what extra chart types it should offer/include. [more]
It is an interesting question, so lets have a poll.
What new chart types you prefer to see next version of excel?
I would love to see box plots, bullet charts and dot plots.
What about you?
Use comments to share your views.
Btw, here are excel tutorials for creating bullet charts, box plots (box plot add-in) and dot plots (add-in).
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3 Responses to “CP049: Don’t do data dumps!!!”
Your title got me nervous because I'm all about data dumps, but not for attaching graphics to data dumps. My reason for using data dumps is when someone is trying to do analysis and their starting point is a report that's formatted in a way for a human to read. I instruct them to stop with the report and go get a data dump: just rows and columns and rows and columns.
Agreed, nearly all of my reports start with 100+ lines of simple table data.
That way you can build your functionality around pulling information from that tabled information.
Yes yes!