2014 has been the busiest year since starting Chandoo.org.
Wow, that is 11 years of breaking previous records. Thank you.
In 2014, we published 128 posts (up 27% YoY), received 6,000+ comments (down 19%). Our forum had 8,700+ new members, 6,650 new threads and more than 42,000 posts in 2014. This year, I have also launched Chandoo.org podcast. We had 26 episodes so far, totaling They were downloaded more than 240,000 times by our listeners.
Fun fact: People have spent more than 4 million minutes in 2014 listening to Chandoo.org podcast. (assuming only 50% of downloads materialized to listens)
We have trained more than 2,000 people thru my online classes – Excel School, VBA Classes & Power Pivot classes.
7.8 million people visited our site in 2014 (up 5%) and consumed a whopping 20 million web pages. Each visitor spent an average of 2:15 minutes on our site becoming awesome in Excel. There are 1.9 million who spent an average of 15 minutes or more on our site.
We have added another 25,000 users to newsletter / RSS followers. At the end of 2014, Chandoo.org has more than 100,000 registered members (excluding forum members) and 3,500 active students (and 5,000+ alumni out in trenches making awesome reports, workbooks and impressing their bosses).
Top 10 posts written in 2014
2014 Calendar & Daily Planner Template [views: 125,321]
Combine text values [quick tip] [views: 85,490]
Quick Gantt chart template [views: 54,792]
Best charts to show % progress [views: 39,727]
Calculate CAGR using Excel [views: 34,051]
State migration dashboard contest entries [views: 29,591]
Find first non blank item in a list using formulas [views: 24,294]
Dynamic Cascading Dropdowns [views: 20,571]
Right click from keyboard, not mouse [views: 20,186]
Multi condition VLOOKUP [views: 19,337]
Honorable mentions
Network relationship chart [views: 17,469]
Top 10 things I learned using Excel for a decade [views: 16,119]
World Elections in 2014 – chart [views: 12,443]
Top 10 Excel struggles and solutions [views: 11,916]
Thanks to guest bloggers Jeff & Sohail for such blockbuster content.
Top 10 Pages in Chandoo.org – 2014
As I have been running this site for more than a decade now, we have so much of accumulated content that gets a lot of visitors. Here are the top 10 pages that attracted insane amounts of traffic in 2014.
Chandoo.org homepage [views: 722,530]
Excel Dashboards – Information, tutorials & templates [views: 637,711]
Project Management using Excel [views: 489,937]
Advanced Excel Skills – what are they and how to build them? [views: 450,061]
Excel Pivot Tables tutorial [views: 298,379]
Free Excel templates [views: 294,748]
Excel formula help [views: 263,906]
What to do when Excel formulas are not working? [views: 249,776]
Excel Forum @ Chandoo.org [views: 237,185]
Between formula in Excel [views: 234,504]
Honorable mentions
Excel basics – what are they and how to learn them? [views: 230,856]
Excel VBA Examples [views: 208,176]
Excel SUMPRODUCT formula [views: 181,580]
Delete blank rows in Excel – quick tip [views: 176,151]
Welcome to Chandoo.org – a short introduction [views: 152,255]
Top 3 podcast episodes in 2014
In 2014, I have started Chandoo.org podcast. It is very well received by our community. Thank you so much. Here are the top 3 sessions of Chandoo.org podcast in 2014.
CP014: How to create awesome dashboards – 10 step process [listens: 16,827]
CP025: Sexy on spreadsheet, ugly on printout [listens: 14,817]
CP001: Introducing Chandoo.org podcast [listens: 14,592]
Key trends this year
This year our focus was on,
- Making more people awesome in Excel, Dashboards, Power Pivot & VBA
- Sharing Excel information in new Podcast format
- Meeting our readers face to face in conference & live classes in USA
- Engaging with you on social media via Facebook page, Pinterest boards & YouTube channel
- Playing with Excel, creating fun examples and sharing awesome content
- Running another amazing dashboard contest and learning from entries.
What do you enjoy most in Chandoo.org this year?
I hope you had a fantastic year learning and unlocking awesome powers of Excel in 2014. Please share your favorite posts, podcasts, videos and content (from Chandoo.org or elsewhere) in the comments section.
And before I forget, Happy New Year to you & your family.
12 Responses to “29 Excel Formula Tips for all Occasions [and proof that PHD readers truly rock]”
Some great contributions here.
Gotta love the Friday 13th formula 😀
Great tips from you all! Thanks a lot for sharing! bsamson, particularly you helped me on a terribly annoying task. 🙂
(BTW, Chandoo, it's not exactly "Find if a range is normally distributed" what my suggestion does. It checks if two proportions are statistically different. I probably gave you a bad explanation on twitter, but it'd be probably better if you fix it here... 🙂 )
Great compilation Chandoo
For the "Clean your text before you lookup"
=VLOOKUP(CLEAN(TRIM(E20)),F5:G18,2,0)
I would like to share a method to convert a number-stored-as-text before you lookup:
=VLOOKUP(E20+0,F5:G18,2,0)
@Peder, yeah, I loved that formula
@Aires: Sorry, I misunderstood your formula. Corrected the heading now.
@John.. that is a cool tip.
Hey Chandoo,
That p-value formula is really great for a statistics person like me.
What a p-value essentially is, is the probability that the results obtained from a statistical test aren't valid. So for example, if my p value is .05, there's a 5% probability that my results are wrong.
You can play with this if you install the Data Analysis Toolpak (which will perform some statistical tests for you AND provide the P Value.)
Let's say for example I've got two weeks of data (separated into columns) with the number of hours worked per day. I want to find out if the total number of hours I worked in week two were really all the different than week one.
Week1 Week2
10 11
12 9
9 10
7 8
5 8
Go to Data > Data Analysis > T-Test Assuming Unequal Variances > OK
In the Variable 1 Box, select the range of data for week 1.
In the Variable 2 Box, select the range of data for week 2.
Check "Labels"
In the Alpha box, select a value (in percentage terms) for how tolerant you are of error.
.05 is the general standard; that is to say I am willing to accept a 95% level of confidence that my result is accuarate.
Select a range output.
Excel calculates a number of results: Average (mean) for each week's data, etc.
You'll notice however that there are two P Values; one-tail and two-tail. (one tail tests are for > or .05), the number of hours I worked in week two is statistically equivalent to the number of hours I worked in week one.
So here’s a way you might want to use this. You put up a new entry on your blog. You think it’s the best entry ever! So you pull your webstats for this week and compare it to last week. You gather data for each week on the length of time a visitor spends on your website. The question you’re trying to prove statistically is whether there’s an average increase in the amount of time spent on your website this week as compared to last week (as a result of your fancy new blog post). You can run the same statistical test I illustrated above to find out. Incidentally, it matters very little to the stat test whether the quantity of visitors differs or not.
Anyhow, the Data Analysis toolpack doesn't perform a lot of stat tests that folks like me would like to have access to. In those cases I have to either use different software, or write some very complicated mathematical formulas. Having this p-value formula makes my life a LOT easier!
Thanks!
Eric~
Fantastic stuf..One line explanation is cool.
Thanks to all the contributors
OS
Take FirstName, MI, LastName in access (you can fix it to work in excel) capitalize first letter of each and lowercase the rest and add ". " if MI exists then same for last name:
Full Name: Format(Left([FirstName],1),">") & Format(Right([FirstName]),Len([FirstName])-1),"") & ". ","") & Format(Left([LastName],1),">") & Format(Right([LastName],Len([LastName])-1),"<")
I teach excel, access, etc etc for a living and i have my access students build this formula one step at a time from the inside out to show how formulas can be made even if it looks complicated. Yes I know I could just do IsNull([MI]) and reverse the order in the Iif() function but the point here is to nest as many functions as possible one by one (also I illustrate how it will fail without the Not() as it is)
Extract the month from a date
The easiest formula for this is =MONTH(a1)
It will return a 1 for January, 2 for February etc.
if in a column we write the value of total person for eg. 10 if we spent 1.33 paise each person then how we get total amount in next column and the result will in round form plzzzzz solve my problem sir................... thank u
@Anjali
If the value 10 is in B2 and 1.33 paise is in C2 the formula in D2 could be =B2*C2
If the values are a column of values you can copy the formula down by copy/paste or drag the small black handle at the bottom right corner of cell D2
kindly share with me new forumulas.
How to convert a figure like 870.70 into 870 but 871.70 into 880 using excel formula ? Please help.