Impress with Tornado Charts in Excel
It’s tornado season. Don’t freak out, I am talking about Excel tornado charts. Use them to visualize age and gender-wise KPIs. Here is a quick demo of interactive tornado chart made in Excel. Watch it and read on to learn how to make your own tornado in a spreadsheet.
Pivot Tables from large data-sets – 5 examples
Let’s say you are starting at a large dataset with multiple columns. You need to make a pivot report from it for a client or manager. How would you go about it?
How to get percentage of something calculations in Excel Pivot Tables
Ever wondered how to get percentage of another value in Excel pivot tables, like this: In this tip, learn how to create such calculations using Excel pivot tables. Note: this tip is not compatible with older versions of Excel. If you are using Excel 2007 / 2010 / 2013, then please install free Power Pivot […]
Distinct count in Excel pivot tables
Ever wanted to count distinct values in your pivot tables? Something like above:
Let’s say you have store sales data. Several products are sold on each day. When you make a pivot table from this data and add product count, Excel counts all products. But we want to see just the distinct count (ie if there is a duplicate product in a day, we want to count it just once).
Here is a simple trick to add distinct count to Excel pivot tables easily.
A trick to Pivot text values
We all know that Pivot Tables are best thing since avocado on toast. But they can’t slice text values and spread them in a table with Pivots. So how to take a large blob of text and turn it in to something meaningful like above?
Simple, we use Power Query.
Create your first interactive chart in Excel with this tutorial
Ever wanted to make a cool, snazzy interactive chart in Excel? Something like this:
In this tutorial, learn all about making your very first interactive chart. We use both formulas and pivot tables to build two versions of an awesome interactive chart in Excel.
Quick tip: Rename headers in pivot table so they are presentable
Pivot tables are fun, easy and super useful. Except, they can be ugly when it comes to presentation. Here is a quick way to make a pivot look more like a report.
- Just type over the headers / total fields to make them user friendly.
See this quick demo to understand what I mean:
So simple and effective.