Hurricane Sandy has taken front seat in all major news channels, papers, websites even in far off places like India. I hope & pray that our readers in US East coast are safe.
Today, lets understand the journey of Hurricane Sandy in this animated chart, prepared by Chris from Excel365.net.
Hurricane Sandy Journey – Animated Excel Chart
How is this animated chart made?
The basic ingredients of this chart are:
- An outline map of Americas
- Data of the storm since it was tropical depression (22nd October) to the time it crossed the coast (30th October)
- Lat & Long of the storm
- Wind speeds
- Pressure
- A scroll bar form control that shows only a subset of this data
- A VBA macro that animates the chart
Since all these techniques are previously discussed on Chandoo.org, I am going to list down the process in high-level with links to learn more.
- Set up a scroll bar form control
- Based on scroll bar position extract first n values only in to another table. Learn more: OFFSET formula *
- Use an outline map & bubble chart to plot circles along storm’s trajectory. Learn more: Olympic medals by country since 1900
- Change scroll bar values from 1 to ‘n’ using a vba macro, when triggered. Learn more: Creating a clock in Excel
- You are done!
* Chris uses #N/A based technique instead of OFFSET ranges in the chart.
Download this and play with it
Click here to download the workbook & learn by breaking it apart. Examine macros & charts closely and add new techniques to your toolbox.
Do you love this? Say thanks to Chris
I really loved this idea. Very intuitive and timely. Thank you so much Chris for sharing this and teaching us something new.
If you loved this, say thanks to Chris. Check out his website (it is in Chinese) for some useful tricks.
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David
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Thanks for being thoughtful of us.
BTW How do you track your expenses/income in excel? Can you share the worksheet please.
Stay safe you and your family, best wishes.
Thanks for the update and happy to know that you and family are doing good. A 21 day lockdown has now been announced in India (I live around Kolkata) so it's uncertain times ahead. I check up on your wonderful articles often and will do so even more regularly now. Stay safe and God bless.
Hi from Argentina, I follow you for a lot of years now. We here are in a quarantine for 2 or 3 weeks, because the pandemia.
Excel is also my passion and I came here looking for a Num2Words formula, but in spanish. If anyone have it, please let me know.
Best regards.
Pablo Molina
La Rioja - Argentina
I'm glad to have your personal update. I'm from India & following you for so many years. Cheers to have any further personal update.