2015 has been the busiest year since starting Chandoo.org.
Wow, that is 12 years of breaking previous records. Thank you.
In 2015, we published 124 posts (down 3% YoY), received 6,300+ comments (up 5%). Our forum too had busy year with 1000s of new members and 5,000+ new threads. Chandoo.org podcast continued to shine, we had 24 episodes this year and reached the 50 episode milestone. Our podcast episodes has been downloaded more than 900,000 so far since launch (in March 2014) with 600,000+ downloads this year alone!!!
Fun fact: People have spent 6.8 million minutes in 2015 listening to Chandoo.org podcast. (assuming only 50% of downloads materialized to listens)
We have trained more than 1,800 people thru my online classes – Excel School, VBA Classes & 50 ways to analyze data program.
8.5 million people visited our site in 2015 (up 8%) and consumed a whopping 21 million web pages. Each visitor spent an average of 2:01 minutes on our site becoming awesome in Excel. There are 1.95 million who spent an average of 15 minutes or more on our site.
We have added another 20,000 more users to newsletter / RSS follower community. At the end of 2015, Chandoo.org has more than 120,000 registered members (excluding forum members) and 3,500 active students (and 7,000+ alumni out in trenches making awesome reports, workbooks and impressing their bosses).
Top 10 posts written in 2015
2015 Calendar & Daily Planner Templates [views: 49,296]
Introduction to Slicers [views: 19,797]
KPI Charts & Dashboards – Competition Results [views: 16,412]
How to Analyze business data? [views: 16,996]
Cost benefit analysis in Excel [views: 15,607]
Insert a blank column in pivot tables [views: 13,419]
Find & highlight all blank cells in Excel – tip [views: 12,481]
Excel formatting shortcuts [views: 11,255]
Visualizing story of change over time [views: 10,347]
VLOOKUP last value in a list [views: 10,561]
Top 10 Pages in Chandoo.org – 2015
As I have been running this site for more than a decade now, we have so much of accumulated content that gets a lot of visitors. Here are the top 10 pages that attracted insane amounts of traffic in 2015.
Excel basics for all [views: 496,163]
Excel dashboards – resources & tutorials [views: 409,224]
Advanced Excel skills for you [views: 382,776]
Project management using Excel [views: 310,890]
Between formula in Excel [views: 277,383]
What to do when Excel formulas don’t work [views: 234,086]
Excel SUMPRODUCT formula [views: 212,815]
Combine text values in Excel – tip [views: 178,237]
Excel School online training program [views: 161,890]
Excel VBA examples [views: 104,737]
Honorable mentions
Multi condition VLOOKUP [views: 157,569]
Project Managemnt Templates for Excel [views: 140,285]
Must have Excel keyboard shortcuts [views: 132,650]
Project status dashboard in Excel [views: 104,076]
Top 5 podcast episodes in 2015
In 2014, I have started Chandoo.org podcast. It is very well received by our community. Thank you so much. Here are the top 5 sessions of Chandoo.org podcast since inception.
CP014: How to create awesome dashboards – 10 step process [listens: 50,846]
CP029: Impress your boss with Excel charts [listens: 40,078]
CP011: 5 Excel magic tricks [listens: 36,447]
CP032: Rules for making legendary column charts [listens: 31,942]
CP036: Trend analysis using Excel [listens: 27,377]
Key trends this year
This year our focus was on,
- Making more people awesome in Excel, Dashboards, Power Pivot & VBA
- Awesome August with 31 posts
- Sharing Excel information in new Podcast format
- Meeting our readers face to face in conference in USA & live classes in Australia
- Engaging with you on social media via Facebook page, Pinterest boards & YouTube channel
- Playing with Excel, creating fun examples and sharing awesome content
- Running another amazing dashboard contest and learning from entries.
What do you enjoy most in Chandoo.org this year?
I hope you had a fantastic year learning and unlocking awesome powers of Excel in 2015. Please share your favorite posts, podcasts, videos and content (from Chandoo.org or elsewhere) in the comments section.
And before I forget, Happy New Year to you & your family.
24 Responses
I’d suggest simply using the subtotal function and filtering the data using the Win/Loss column. You get the same results and the formula is more comprehensible.
@John
That is one option.
There are times however when you want to see the whole data table or a filtered subset and still want to produce summary reports against an unfiltered field.
Is there a particular reason why you are using a comma and the unary (–) operator for the second array in the SUMPRODUCT formula? It seems to work the same if you were to string the arrays together using the asterisk (*). The advantage is that SUMPRODUCT treats the entire string of arrays as a single array.
@Mathew
Your correct, There is no difference.
I thought it may have been easier to explain this method.
Is there a way to do this on a large set of data? As in ~100,000 rows? When I try I get an error because the formula becomes too long. It says the max length of a formula is 8,192 characters. Excel 2010.
How do I incorporate a specific text within a cell for the second array. For instance, – -(C7:C13=”Apple”)
when I chose a specific text the formula does not work.
@RB
I am not sure what is the issue as if I use the sample data in the post the following work fine
Count:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(C7:C13,ROW(C7:C13)-MIN(ROW(C7:C13)),,1)), –(C7:C13=”L”))
Sum:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(C7:C13,ROW(C7:C13)-MIN(ROW(C7:C13)),,1)),(C7:C13=”L”)*(D7:D13))
You may want to check that there are no leading or trailing spaces in your list of Apples
I should have given a better explanation. Heres my situation. I have a column with cells filled with names like Column 1, Column 2, Pier 1, Pier 2, etc. If the cell just contained Pier and searched for that it works. But because it has other characters in the cell its not recognizing the pier. So how can I extract specific characters of a string of text in this formula?
Hopefully this was a better explanation
Hello-
This formula works pretty well for me except that it slow down excel and prevents some of my macros from working. I was wondering if there was a way to program this in VBA so that excel isn’t always trying to recalculate it. I would like to use a push of a button to get it to run then paste in a cell.
Thanks!
I am trying to sum filtered data in a column, but would want to ignore the negative values in the column. How to go about doing this?
@Akshay
Why not just add a filter to that column to only show the values greater than zero?
The negative values are required for reporting purposes, but their effect on the total is distorting the required output. Please advise.
@Akshay
I’d suggest making a post in the Chandoo.org Forums
http://forum.chandoo.org/
Attach a sample file to simplify the task
I have this working for counting and summing, however, I have a list and for the second array, I need a criteria. That is, I’m looking for b13:b200=”01.??.??” or =left((a1,2) or something like that. These types of criteria matches do not appear to work as I get a blank as a result.
Thanks!
@Bob
As your formula b13:b200=”01.??.??” looks like you are trying to check the first day of the month of the range
What about trying Day(B13:B200)=1
Hai Experts,
i understood this formula well and working fine in MS Excel 2013
but when the same am trying to place in google Spreadsheet it shows error as
“SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1. column count: 1. Actual row count: 2014, column count: 1.” and as a result #VALUE! Appears in cell.
Can anyone please help me how would i get it done in Google Spread sheet
or is there any other formula as a substitute for this.
Thank you very much.
thanks for providing this.. but why does excel keeps on prompting Circular referencing in cell D3?
@Vivek
I don’t know
I just downloaded the file and it is working fine and not showing that error
Goto the Formulas, Calculation Options Tab and check that Calculation is set to Automatic
What version of Excel and Windows are you using ?
I know that this forum is for MS Excel, but I am trying to help someone who is working in Google Sheets. The below formula works in Excel but Google Sheets returns:
“SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1. column count: 1. Actual row count: 39000, column count: 1.” and as a result #VALUE! Appears in cell.
This is the same problem asked by Srichirin above. Does anyone know if there is a formula for Google Sheets that will replicate what MS Excel does?
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET($C$6:$C$39500,ROW($C$6:$C$39500)-MIN(ROW($C$6:$C$39500)),,1)),- -($C$6:$C$39500=H1),($D$6:$D$39500))
Trying to find a SUMPRODUCT formula that counts the word Closed by date for the last 7 days in a filtered list.
=COUNTIF(M:M,”>”&TODAY()-7) works ok for unfiltered count Column M contains Closure dates (blank if open) and Column L is Status Open or Closed
@ Terry
Please ask the question at the Chandoo.org Forums
https://chandoo.org/forum/
Please attach a sample file to ensure a quicker more accurate answer
I used this formula and worked like a charm! But, now I’ve been requested to use it but adding not one but two criteria in the same formula. For instance the sum I was doing added negative and positive numbers. I’ve been asked to use the exact same formula but adding that only positive numbers were considered… any idea on how to do this?
How exactly do you do sum filtered cells when two criteria are need not just one?
Thank you so much brother literally I have been struggling since morning to get the sum of the filtered category, however, after reading your blog attentively i got my solution, so thanks a lot once again.