KPI Contest Winners
Today is a school holiday for kids. So we (Jo & I) are taking them to zoo for a day of walking, picnic and family time. Before I rush, I want to share two quick announcements with you.
KPI contest winners:
Thanks for everyone who participated in our recent KPI data visualization contest. Each and everyone who made the final list is a winner in my book. You have creativity, passion and a sense of sharing.
After reviewing all the entries and considering our judge’s opinions, here are the winners:
Announcing Awesome August
Hi folks,
I am excited to announce Awesome August. It is a month-long effort to make you awesome in various aspects of Excel.
Awesome August… What is it?
For each and every day of August 2015, I am going to publish a new piece of content – an Excel tip, a formula technique, a charting solution or a productivity booster. 31 days – 31 pieces of awesome content.
Sounds Yummy? Participate in Awesome August:
There are 4 ways to participate in Awesome August
- Sign-up to Chandoo.org newsletter. Get weekly emails with links to all the Awesome August content.
- Comment & Win: Comment on any of the Awesome August posts. 31 random commenters will each get $31 Amazon gift-card.
- Follow Awesome August in social media – on twitter, facebook, youtube and iTunes
- Ask your friends & colleagues to participate. Send them to Chandoo.org/AwesomeAugust
Share your favorite Excel tip & you could win Beats Headphones [Podcast Anniversary Celebrations]
Yay, bring out the birthday hats, candles, cake & confetti. Chandoo.org podcast is 1 year old.
In this one year, we had 31 sessions, 4 guest appearances, 390,000 downloads & lots of 5 star reviews. Thank you so much for making it a grand success so far.
To celebrate the occasion, I want to reward 3 lucky listeners of our podcast.
How to participate in this contest?
- Simple. Figure out what your favorite Excel tip is.
- Open your smart phone’s voice recorder app
- on iPhone use the Voice Memos app
- on Andriod use sVoice or voice recorder widgets
- If you cant find these apps, just Google record audio <your phone name>
- Record the tip (less than 3 mins duration)
- Please say your name at the end of recording.
- Send the audio file by email to hello@chandoo.org
- Do so before end of day 16 March 2015 (Monday)
Once I collect all the tips, I will feature some of them in next episode of Chandoo.org podcast.
3 Course Meal of Excel Awesomeness for You
If you are an Excel enthusiast, here is a feast for you.
Just a small glitch, it is a not feast you enjoy with mouth, it is a feast you consume with eyes, ears & mind.
It gives me immense pleasure to invite you to this feast.
Download today – Introducing Excel Dashboard Templates from Chandoo.org
Friends and readers of Chandoo.org, my newest download, Excel Dashboard Templates are available for your consideration. Click here if you are ready to get them. Read on to know more.
What are Excel Dashboard Templates?
As the name suggests, these are ready to use Excel templates for creating awesome, informative, easy to understand & quick dashboards with your data. You just enter your data, set up few calculation options, decide how your dashboard should look & bingo, a beautiful & insightful dashboard will be created for you. These dashboards are optimized to look great, convey key information & prompt correct action.
Who should buy these templates?
Analysts, managers, reporting professionals, business owners & executives. These templates are designed to help anyone preparing Excel based dashboards, scorecards or KPI reports.
Benefits for you
- Design awesome dashboards in minutes, not months: Don’t waste hours trying to figure out formulas, chart settings and layouts. Instead focus on what your users want, how your business works and use those insights to tell the ‘Excel Dashboard Template’ what you want. Save time and look awesome.
- Accommodate change elegantly: People change. Businesses change. What your boss wanted last month is no longer what she wants today. So when someone asks you, “hmm, can you show me YTD data instead of last 13 months”, or “Can I see top 10 KPIs instead of all”, you just smile and tap a few clicks and bingo, the new dashboard will be ready. These templates are designed to handle change (data, requirements, design preferences and insights).
- Beautiful & Informative: These templates are designed with a delicate balance of beauty & insight. Everything is seamlessly designed, perfectly aligned and precisely calculated so that you & your boss can focus on the insights & decisions. Time tested and well honored visualization principles & guidelines are observed thru-out the reports.
- Built for starters, built for pros: Whether you are just starting with Excel or a seasoned pro, you can find the templates right up your alley. For advanced users, we have many customizations to whet your appetite. Want to build a custom calculation or include another type of sorting, you can do it by tinkering with ‘calculations’ sheet.
Back after a while & 3 announcements
Hello awesome folks. It has been a while since I posted on Chandoo.org. And there is a reason for that. As you may know, recently (on October 12th) a category 3 cyclone (hurricane) passed thru our city devastating trees, power lines, cellular towers, old houses & roads on its way. This means our family was left without power, water, telephone and internet for almost 10 days. Early last week we got power & water. Then slowly the internet started working too. (more on this here)
I am swimming thru heaps of email & backlog work. Thanks to everyone who emailed me with kind thoughts, prayers and love. I can’t tell you how thankful I am for having you in my life.
I am really glad to be back online, sharing my stories, knowledge & tips with you all.
As it has been a while, I want to share a few quick announcements first.
Become awesome in data analytics, charting & Power Pivot with Houston Masterclass [reminder]
Hello friends,
Let me stop our broadcast of Excel tips to bring an announcement.
Houston, we are going to get awesome
As you may know, I am doing 4 days of live masterclasses on Advanced Excel, Dashboards, Power Pivot & Data Analytics in Houston (Texas) this September.
- 15 & 16 September (Mon & Tue) on Advanced Excel & Dashboard Reporting
- 17 & 18 September (Wed & Thu) on Power Pivot & Data Analytics
This 4 day masterclass is aimed at managers, analysts, reporting professionals, executives in sales, marketing, customer service or anyone who wants to learn about Data Analytics, Advanced Excel, Dashboard reporting.