Charts and Graphs
How-to highlight maximum value in Excel charts? [Quick tip]
Ever wanted to highlight maximum value in charts? Then this tip is for you.
August 7, 2019
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My name is Chandoo. My mission is to make you awesome in Excel and Power BI.
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Pivot Tables & Charts
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?
August 2, 2019
Power BI
How to conditionally format visuals in Power BI?
Do you know that you can apply conditional formatting rules to visuals in Power BI? In this post, let’s learn how to conditionally format visuals in Power BI. Something like this:
July 30, 2019
Charts and Graphs
Tour de France – Distance & Pace over time – Radial Charts
This is an Excel replica of excellent Tableau visual on Tour de France winner data made by Marc Reid.
Last week I saw a stunning visualization on Tour de France using radial charts. I wanted to replicate it in Excel. So here we go.
July 19, 2019
Charts and Graphs
Make info-graphics with shape fill technique [Charting Tip]
This is a quick, fun and elegant way to make impressive charts. You can easily create info-graphic style charts in Excel using shape fill technique. Something like this:
July 11, 2019
Analytics
How to predict cricket scores [Excel + Machine Learning]
Can we predict cricket match score in Excel? Using machine learning, ensemble modeling, multiple regression and Excel formulas we can. This tutorial explains how.
July 2, 2019
Financial Modeling
Should finance people learn Power BI?
I recently went to Sydney to conduct some training programs on Advanced Excel and Power BI. While I was there, I met my good friend
June 14, 2019
Power Query
Combine multiple Excel files using Power Query [Full example + download]
Say you want to combine multiple Excel files, but there is a twist. Each file has few tabs (worksheets) and you want to combine like for like, ie , all Sheet1s to one dataset, all Sheet2s to another dataset…
To make matters interesting each sheet has a different format.
What now?
Of course Power Query to the rescue.
May 30, 2019
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