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Creating in-cell bar charts / histograms in excel
By Chandoo at 13 May, 2008, 3:10 pm | 6 Comments
Ever since writing the create in-cell pie charts in excel, I have been itching to find a simple enough method to do incell bar graphs. An in-cell bar would probably be more useful and cuter than an in-cell pie as it can instantly provide trending details. What more, these would probably look gorgeous when printed [...]
Read More >>Create in-cell pie charts in Excel
By Chandoo at 7 May, 2008, 9:24 pm | 10 Comments
Here is a ridiculously easy trick to do nice incell pie charts in excel, what more, they will make you look like a charting wizard.
Download free pie chart font from here (direct download link). The font has 21 pie chart codes starting with empty circle (character ‘a’) and ending with full circle (character ‘u’)
Install [...]
Open your favorite sites directly from Windows XP run dialog box
By Chandoo at 2 May, 2008, 8:15 pm | 6 Comments
After seeing DI’s Open Your Favorite Websites Directly from Windows Vista Start post, I thought why not use Windows XP Run dialog box as a search box. So here is a simple trick that can enable you to open your favorite sites directly from XP’s run dialog box.
Using this trick you can type “g bbc” [...]
7 Most innovative software job titles
Gone are the days when software jobs are called ‘coder’ or ‘programmer’, as sophistication increased companies started calling the same coder as ’software engineer’ or ‘programmer analyst’, then there were ’sr. evangelists’, ‘associates’ and ’server gurus’, but in the new era where demand is outstripping supply, naming a job creatively is as important as the [...]
Read More >>Calorie card : a sound business idea for gyms / health clubs
By Chandoo at 2 May, 2008, 2:40 pm | 5 Comments
Yesterday while on treadmill I got this idea (btw, what is your favorite spot for generating new ideas?) - a calorie card its like a gas card, A membership card for gyms / health clubs. The key difference is that, instead of using the card whenever you spend money, you use calorie card whenever you [...]
Read More >>Vodafone pug is happy to help you .. or really?
By Chandoo at 30 April, 2008, 2:51 pm | 4 Comments
Look at the above Vodafone ad, the latest one where a cute little girl is constantly getting help from a cute little pug in various situations while a beautiful jingle is played in the background. The ad ends saying that “Vodafone is all too happy to help you” when you need them.
Even though I am [...]
Create Cool Tag Clouds in Excel using VBA
By Chandoo at 22 April, 2008, 8:52 pm | 9 Comments
I was toying with the idea of creating a tag cloud in excel - as a form of new visualization, this could be useful when you have medium amounts of data (eg: 50-300 rows) and you want to emphasize on what is important and what is not. I would imagine using a tag-cloud,
When you are [...]
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