Christmas & New year have always been our favorite holidays. Many of our relatives & friends visit us around this time. The weather is excellent. This year, it seems even more special. Nakshatra & Nishanth (our twins) are looking forward to this as much as we do. Plus, we are celebrating it in our new home. Feels magical.
We wish you Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2012.
I also want to tell you how thankful I am for your love, support & kindness. Everyday, I feel inspired knowing that I can share my knowledge, mistakes & passion with all of you. Thank you so much for your eagerness to learn from me, we have a home now, we get to spend time with our kids and do things we love & care. Thank you.
About this year’s Holiday Card:
Unlike last year, this year, we got quite a few photos where all 4 of us gave good poses. Now, I can get my kids to focus on something for a few seconds, you see. The above pic was taken during 2nd birthday of our kids.
Holiday Posting Schedule
During this holidays, there will be little action on Chandoo.org. Here is what you will see on our site from now until New year 2012.
- Dec 23, 24, 25, 26: No posts
- Dec 27: 2012 Calendar in Excel [Template]
- Dec 28: People and Websites that helped me in 2011 [Thank you message]
- Dec 29: Best of Chandoo.org – Awesome Excel Stuff that everyone loved [Compilation]
- Dec 30, 31, Jan 1: No Posts
- Jan 2: Risk Management using Excel [Part 2]
Forums:
Our Excel Forums will operate normally during this holidays. That said, both Hui & I will be away from the site. I guess other regulars like Luke, NarayanK, Vijay, Dan will be away too. So expect some delay when you post an Excel doubt.
Shop:
Our online store will be open. However, if you are joining Excel School or Financial Modeling classes or Project Management classes during the weekend, your login details will be sent only on Monday.
Email:
I will try to clear my mailbox once a day or two during this week. However, if you do not hear back from me by New Year, just resend your mail. Thank you.
Once again, we wish you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. May this holidays and rest of the year fill your life with happiness, wealth & health.
Thank you.
12 Responses to “Analyzing Search Keywords using Excel : Array Formulas in Real Life”
Very interesting Chandoo, as always. Personally I find endless uses for formulae such as {=sum(if(B$2:B$5=$A2,$C$2$C$5))}, just the flexibility in absolute and relative relative referencing and multiple conditions gives it the edge over dsum and others methods.
I've added to my blog a piece on SQL in VBA that I think might be of interest to you http://aviatormonkey.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/lesson-one-sql-in-vba/ . It's a bit techie, but I think you might like it.
Keep up the good work, aviatormonkey
Hi Chandoo,
You might find this coded solution I posted on a forum interesting.
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-programming/680810-create-tag-cloud-in-vba-possible.html
[...] under certain circumstances. One of the tips involved arranging search keywords in excel using Array Forumlas. Basically, if you need to know how frequent a word or group of keywords appear, you can use this [...]
@Aviatormonkey: Thanks for sharing the url. I found it a bit technical.. but very interesting.
@Andy: Looks like Jarad, the person who emailed me this problem has posted the same in excelforum too. Very good solution btw...
Realy great article
"You can take this basic model and extend it to include parameters like number of searches each key phrase has, how long the users stay on the site etc. to enhance the way tag cloud is generated and colored."
How would you go about doing this? I think it would need some VB
Hi,
I found the usage very interesting, but is giving me hard time because the LENs formula that use ranges are not considering the full range, in other words, the LEN formula is only bringing results from the respective "line" cell.
Using the example, when I place the formula to calculate the frequency for "windows" brings me only 1 result, not 11 as displayed in the example. It seems that the LEN formula using ranges is considering the respective line within the range, not the full range.
Any hint?
@Thiago
You have to enter the formula as an Array Formula
Enter the Formula and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Not just Enter
Thank you, Hui! I couldn't work out how this didn't work
is there a limit to the number of lines it can analyse.
Ie i am trying to get this to work on a list of sentances 1500 long.
@Gary
In Excel 2010/2013 Excel is only limited by available memory,
So just give it a go
As always try on a copy of the file first if you have any doubts
Apologies if I am missing something, but coudn't getting frequency be easier with Countif formula. Something like this - COUNTIF(Range with text,"*"&_cell with keyword_&"*")
Apologies if I missed, but what is the Array Formula to:
1. Analyze a list of URL's or a list of word phrases to understand frequency;
2. List in a nearby column from most used words to least used words;
3. Next to the list of words the count of occurrences.