It is show time baby! - better designer clocks to display time in your spreadsheets

My polar clock using donut charts in excel started a conversation and readers have been awesome enough to download the excel and create their own clocks to show time. Even though the idea of this blog is share the little that I know with you, it is amazing how much I have learned from you [...]

5 Infographics that can WOW you [Aug 7]

Time for another week of ogling at cool visualizations. What a week it has been for the chart makers
Super cool visualization of 2008 Box office collection

This is an area chart modified to indicate how a movie has performed everyweek, thus the movie markers go down (except for dark knight) after 1-2 weeks
Onion Maps [...]

Doing the NY times Olympic medals by country year visualization in excel

When I saw the Olympic medals won by each country by year infographic on nytimes my jaw almost dropped, go ahead see it and come back, I am sure you will love it too.
It is one of the coolest visualizations I have seen in the recent past and I see infographics all the time, [...]

Amul is Seriously Good - How agile is your brand?

Amul has one hell of a branding strategy, they take whatever is happening in politics, entertainment, sports etc and turn the situation in to a billboard to tell their butter / jam / milk product story. Almost every week they do this, so restlessly that when something big happens, customers tend to think how Amul [...]

Excel can be Exciting - 15 fun things you can do with your spreadsheet in less than 5 seconds

Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do.
Happy Friday
1. Change the shape / color of cell comments

Just select the cell comment, go to draw [...]

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 [...]

Mute conversations in Gmail to not follow a specific thread of mails

Do you know that you can mute conversations in gmail if you are do not want to see that lengthy thread on single subjected that people wont give up.

Just select the mail / conversation you want to mute
Click on “More actions” and select “mute”
Enjoy the bliss

If you want search for muted conversations use “is:muted” search [...]