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 read Garr Reynold’s remarks.
Tracking Hurricane Gustav a la infographic style
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These days telling a complex story like how a hurricane strikes is made easy, thanks to tons of flash based visualization tools available for news reporters. [via Flowing Data]
How would tell your story if you are aiming to change a habit? – Google Chrome Comic Book

Google has launched their open source browser Chrome. Now this is a very bold step, when millions of people have developed a hobby of using IE or Firefox and pretty much satisfied with them. How did Google tell their story of new browser and created a need for it ? By creating a comic book and telling every one how browsers work, about memory leaks, garbage collection, UI design. Very effective.
More Olympics visualizations – News paper comes to life and tells impressive stories

What would you do when you are revamping infographics department of a leading news paper? Folks at El Heraldo have done a fantastic job.
Sony Walkman Subway map advertisement

Okay, this is not infographic, but it is a very creative way to tell that Sony Walkman is a constant companion no matter which route you take on the metro. Very creative, very effective. I can’t imagine taking metro to anywhere without company or music. [via cool infographics]
Click here to check out other cool infographics. 🙂

















30 Responses to “Great News: Chandoo becomes MVP”
Congratulations! It's well deserved. 🙂
This is amazing. Hearty congratulations and a rocking new year ahead!!!
Congrats! I have learnt alot from your site... and the most important is learning how to achieve the most with the simplest concepts.
Thanks for the excel calendar. Is it possible to get a simple big fonted calendar printable on an A4 size paper without any distracive notes or visuals? BTW, I have already signed up for your newsletter. With warm regards and
Gratefully yours
50+ year old CHarish.
Hey Chandoo,
Great to hear that. Congratulations! The best new year gift, I would say. Keep it up, u've been doing extraordinary work for the excel users community.
Regards,
Pankaj Verma
Congrats dude... fantastic news!
congratulations! your site is great, this is well deserved
Rich
I recently found your site, I visit many. The tips that you provide are in the top 1% of all the sites I visit. Keep on Excelling.
Arnold
South Africa
Congratulations, Chandoo! That's a great way to start the year and make the PHD even better.
Congratulations, Chandoo.
Your site is one of most useful on the net. Happy new year and lot of ideas you will present for us.
Congrats.
Just read your name in an email from Abhishek. Well deserved.
Congratulations, and Happy New Year.
Greetings from Rio de Janeiro my friend! You trully deserve it!
Nive way to start 2009! Keep up the good work!
FC
That was quite forseeable , so you have now really got your PhD in excel.
Anyways Chandoo you have made excel a real Fun doo
I will like you to write some more on INDEX and MATCH function in near future.
@Hey Chandoo ! Congrates....
Ab to treat mangta hai !
Well deserved Chandoo!!
Congrat's!! Very well deserved 🙂
i always browsed mr.excel and used to see MVP writtne below names of people who used to solve queries in excel forum there......i just used to admire as to what they have special in them that they are MVP......
but now i got my answer...............u deserve it man..........
@All: thanks everyone 🙂
Congratulations Chandoo, nice job!
Chandoo,
A well deserved recognition and a good start to the New Year. Continue your good work.
Subbu
Many Congratulations.
You deserve a Ph.D. 🙂
congrats.....
Congrats dude. Rock on!
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Respected sir,
I am impressed!.... Good job done.. Keep it up...
Sir, How to be a MVP certified person. What level of knowledge is required for it? send me links if possible.
Please reply...
Regards,
Dipak Khalasi.
Dipak -
The first thing you need to cultivate is the ability to search the web effectively. You could start by Googling "Microsoft MVP".
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Congrats Chandoo!!
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