Cool Info-graphics of the Week [Sep 5]

By Chandoo at 5 September, 2008, 9:16 pm | 0 Comments

Cool Info-graphics of the Week [Sep 5]

Once every week Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates the art of chart making by sharing 4-5 of the best info-graphics featured in various web sites. Click here to see the visualizations featured earlier.
Anatomy of a Great Speech - Obama’s acceptance speech at DNC

Presentation Zen captures Obama’s symphony like acceptance speech in a graph shown above. Do [...]

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

By Chandoo at 19 August, 2008, 8:40 pm | 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Polar clock using donut chart [Excel Visualization fun]

By Chandoo at 18 August, 2008, 5:06 pm | 6 Comments

Polar clock using donut chart [Excel Visualization fun]

Smashing Magazine is one of daily hangouts for new design ideas, inspiration and ogle fun. When they featured Pixel Breaker’s Polar clock last Friday on Top 10 creative ways to display time, I knew this could be an interesting visualization to do in excel. So I have created a donut chart in excel that can [...]

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

By Chandoo at 1 August, 2008, 10:38 am | 34 Comments

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 [...]

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Worst bar chart ever? - World’s Most Expensive Places to Have Sxx

By Chandoo at 17 July, 2008, 1:18 pm | 2 Comments

Worst bar chart ever? - World’s Most Expensive Places to Have Sxx

Environmental Graffiti should get the award for “worst possible bar chart ever” for this unbelievable piece of art…
Who said bar charts are only for serious data interpretation, they can be used to have such fun
Also read Garr Reynold’s comments on this as well. Happy Thursday..

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Bingo / Housie Ticket Generator in Excel

By Chandoo at 16 July, 2008, 5:49 pm | 1 Comment

Bingo / Housie Ticket Generator in Excel

I am fascinated by board games. They provide immense fun, anyone can enjoy them, they are unpredictable and best of all they are great value for money. That is why whenever I get sometime I experiment with simulating games to know them better [read Why Monopoly board game is not as random as it appears]. [...]

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myRoom.makeSuperCool()

By Chandoo at 11 July, 2008, 6:00 pm | 4 Comments

myRoom.makeSuperCool()

How geeky are you? Show off your geekness to others with this kickass room decor ideas,
Just click the images to follow up. live geek, love geek
1. Lets start with the door. You can experiment with the door locks to create your own puzzle:

2. Now that you are in how geeky [...]

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