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Hi all, Finally, our new forum software is ready. I am planning to migrate the forum data from old software (current platform) to new software on 23AUG2013 (Friday) at 10AM EST. Our forums will remain closed from that point until 26 August Monday Midnight (EST). What does this mean to you...

Hi all, As you may know, our forum has been under intense spam attack for last several months. This has not only slowed things on our site, but took considerable energy of our lovable ninjas and site admins. The problem for this spam attack is with us. We have been using a old...

Hi all, For several months now, we have been attacked by spambots which register and post spam on the forums. Just now I got an email from our hosting providers raising serious concern about this. As a preventive measure, I am disabling new registrations on the forum. This means, if you are...

Vanakkam Chennai readers..., I am going to be in Chennai (India) from this Sunday (25th November, 2012) to Next (2nd December) to conduct some inhouse training with Renault Nissan. Since Narayank is in Chennai, I am planning to meet him anyway. But I thought..., "Why not have a meetup at one...

Recently, our little forums added third Excel ninja - Narayank. To congratulate these 3 heros (Hui, Luke and Narayank), I made a small animated chart showing how many posts they made since joining us. You can see it here: http://img.chandoo.org/vp/story-of-3-excel-ninjas.gif And those of...

First up I want to say how terrific January had been for Chandoo.org. We crossed all sorts of previous traffic records this month. Even though I have not verified the final numbers, they are 20% more than all time best we had before Jan 2012. So congratulations everyone! Now comes the fun...

Not an Excel question really, but I am sure this is a great place to find an answer. We are planing to be in Bangkok for a few months starting Jan 3rd week. I need some help with invitation letter. If you are living in Bangkok or know someone who can help me, please drop an email or reply to...

Any cricket fans aboard? Congratulations to team India for such stellar performance in World Cup 2011. They showed excellent commitment, team spirit and raw nerve. I am so happy to be alive and cheering for this team when they won the world cup 2011. Congrats... PS: yes, indulge in a little...

I just want to take a minute to congratulate Hui for completing 1000 posts in the forum. He has shown passion and selflessly shared his knowledge with rest of us to improve our productivity and excel life. Thank you so much Hui for your contributions :)

Hi all, Many of you are interested in learning advanced excel like macros, vba, dashboards, creative formula writing etc. I recommend joining Daniel Ferry's Excel Hero Academy. It is in session now and I have already enrolled myself. So far I find it pretty good. Read my review and find...

Hello folks.. Some of you know that I run an online excel training program called as Excel School. After running 2 batches successfully, now I have opened registrations for 3rd batch. I am giving 10% discount on course fee to all the forum members. To use the discount code, Go to...

Hi all... We are releasing Excel Wedding Planner today. http://chandoo.org/wp/wedding-planner/ If you have any questions about the product or how to use it, post them here. Either Kevin or I will get back to you.

Hello Fellows, I have an exciting news for you. Excel School online excel training program is now open for registrations. It is an online program with over 20 hours of excel training videos, 40+ excel files with tons of examples and fully loaded with awesome ninja powerhacks to take you to...

Hi all... why dont you list down your favorite excel websites? I will start with my list. Bacon Bits URL Clearly and Simply URL Code For Excel And Outlook URL Contextures Blog URL Daily Dose of Excel URL DSA Insights URL EagerEyes.org URL Excel & VBA - da Tab Is On URL Jorge Camoes'...

Hi all, Welcome to the Chandoo.org Forums. Posting Rules & Etiquette The Chandoo.org Forums is a collaborative and happy place to learn and expand your Excel knowledge. The Chandoo.org Forums consist of several Sub-Forums based on the type of question/area of Excel you are interested in...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/economy/unemployment-lines.html The NY Times interactive jobless rate for you chart (link above) is pretty cool... It shows a bunch of blurred lines and once you make a selection, the corresponding job loss rate is highlighted. For eg. you...

Hi all.. Congratulations on successful purchase of e-book. What do you think about the contents? Do you find the formulas useful and handy? How many new things have you managed to learn? What improvements can be made to this e-book to make it even better? do tell me.

I just came across this site called nextbigsound for visualizing artist and music popularity. Unlike most other so called visualizations, this site uses simple line charts (with clearly contrasted colors) to show which music / artist is more popular. You can compare several artists at a time...

very cool seinfeld world visualization... http://moviefill.com/untitled/The-Web-of-Seinfeld-17/ Btw, do you watch seinfeld ? Who is your favorite character.. I cant decide between Cosmo and George... :))

I stumbled on this today... http://www.nytimes.com//interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html seems very interesting and cool. What do you think about this ?

The lovely people at Bonavista Systems, who are sponsoring a dashboard bundle as part of our 5k contests are running a dashboard competition. If you build / manage excel based dashboards then you should check out the contest and submit your dashboard. The prizes are sexy. You can find more...

Hi all.. I have a very good news for you. Our community at Pointy Haired Dilbert is now 5000 strong. We have crossed the 5000 RSS subscriber mark last week. To celebrate the occasion I have planned few contests. Read this post to find details and links: 1. Tweet your Forumla tricks contest...

Saw this news on TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/28/monster-merger-ibm-buys-spss-for-approx-12-billion/ that IBM is buying SPSS. I have used SPSS for some statistical analysis (segmentation, proving complex hypotheses, complex regression etc.) during my PG days... I like the raw...

Shuchi sent me this pacman chart via email. Pretty cool.. http://7.media.tumblr.com/mfHTCGSSnc1h9pe5nm8BHmxd_500.jpg

Hi all.. After weeks of thought, finally I have yielded to it. ... I have finally eaten a whole half kg of ice cream that is... Well, not really, I have created the forum on PHD. People have been emailing me and asking me "where can I ask a question?" Often telling them to "go bing or...