5 wonderful visualizations you must see [Aug 22]

Every week Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates the art of chart making by sharing 5 of the most beautiful, innovative and effective infographic ideas from various sites. Click here to see the visualizations featured earlier.
Pop, Soda or Coke? - Countywise terms used for sweetened carbonated water

The pop-vs-soda map tells how marketers have been effective and creating [...]

Excel Links of the week - What do you dream about? [Aug 19]

The other day my wife told me that we dream about a total of 6 years in our life, an average of 2 hours for everyday you sleep. [Source: wikipedia on dreams]. That is almost as much time as you would work in 30 years (30*50*40/24/365, assuming you work 40 hours a week for 50 [...]

Charts of the Week [Aug 15]

Every week, this blog features 5 of the best visualizations from the last week around the web.
Average gas prices in US regions from 1993 plotted in dynamic bar

Flowing data takes a look at the historical gasoline price data and provides us this eye candy.
My friend Jon takes a look at this and [...]

Excel Links of Week - Who is Obama edition? [Aug 12]

I use google suggest to get new post ideas, I start out by typing “what is”, “who is”, “how to”, “when is”, “where is”, “excel” and see all the suggestions Google comes up with. If I see something interesting I would mark the search topic and use it for posting here. And for the last [...]

Excel links of the week : ‘what can excite you most’ [Aug 4]

Passion, excitement, inspiration or love - whatever you choose to call it, is the key reason we do remarkable things. Take a minute break here, think about the most significant moments in your life.
What is common in all of those moments?

I am sure your answer will be Passion or excitement, love, inspiration.
I want to [...]

Cool infographics around the web - [july 31]

Time for another round of cool charting / info-graphic ideas around the web.
Most Popular Baby Names - all the way from 1880

Nametrends is a cool website totally dedicated to analyzing and showing baby name trends. They have pretty interesting stuff like, how baby names ending with -lie (charlie, willie, ellie etc.) fared from [...]

Excel Links of the week

Here is a quick round up of excel posts from few of the awe some blogs around the web:
At PTS Blog, Jon provides excellent tutorial on adding target lines to your bar charts to show target vs. actual performance. He has several other tweaks for your category axis as well, just read the other posts [...]