Finally the winner for our first visualization contest is decided. It is… Cuboo.
The entry by MB (#6) came a close second.
All the participants will receive a copy of my excel formulas e-book while Cuboo gets a copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
All in all there are several great entries suggesting a good variety to present budget vs. actual performance. Go check them out.
A Month ago I got a request from a reader asking me what is the best way to visualize budget vs. actual performance? I didn’t have any ready made answer for him. So I posted a visualization challenge, inviting contributions from my readers.
I got several responses and I am still not sure which one of them is best. So I have asked you to vote for the best visualization among all. And you selected Cuboo as the winner. Congratulations!
Many thanks to all my readers and contributors for making this a memorable and learning experience. I have learned several fun and interesting charting tricks looking the contest entries. I hope you had similar experience.
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6 Responses to “Nest Egg Calculator using Power BI”
Wow! What a Powerful article!
Hello Chandoo Sir
your file does not work with Excel 2016.
how can I try my hands on this powerful nest egg file ?
thanks
Ravi Santwani
@Ravi... this is a Power BI workbook. You need Power BI Desktop to view it. See the below tutorial to understand what Power BI is:
https://chandoo.org/wp/introduction-to-power-bi/
As always, superb article Chandoo... 🙂
Just one minor issue:
While following your steps and replicating this calculator in PowerBI, I found that the Growth Pct Parameters should be set as "Decimal number" not "Whole Number"
OR
we have to make corresponding adjustments in the Forecast formulas (i.e. divide by 100) to get accurate results.
You are right. I used whole number but modified the auto created harvester measure with /100 at end. Sorry I did not mention it in the tutorial.
Instead of
[Growth Pct 1 Value]/12
the monthly rate has to be
(1+[Growth Pct 1 Value])^(1/12)-1
It's a slight difference but in 30 years the future value will be $100k less.