How to make stream graphs in Excel?
A stream graph or stream plot is an area chart that looks like a stream. In this post, let me show you how to create an interactive stream graph using Excel area charts. The original design for this graph is inspired from Cedric Scherer.
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.
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.
How your country did in Commonwealth Games – Power BI Viz and Tutorial
Commonwealth games 2018 have ended in the weekend. Let’s take a look at the games data thru Power BI to understand how various countries performed.
Here is my viz online or you can see a snapshot above.
Looks good, isn’t it? Well, read on to know how it is put together.
Visualizing Commonwealth games performance – Interactive chart
The 2018 edition of Commonwealth games are on for a week now. Both of my homes – India and New Zealand have been doing so well. Naturally, I wanted to gather games data and make something fun and creative from it. Here is my attempt to amuse you on this Friday.
Looks interesting? Want to know how to make something like this on your own? Then read on…
Histograms & Pareto charts in Excel – tutorial, tips and downloadable template
Time for some statistics and charting fun. Let’s learn all about histograms and Pareto charts in Excel 2016. You will learn
- What, why and when?
- How to set up and customize histograms
- How to use Pareto charts?
- How to create dynamic histograms?
- Creating histograms in old Excel (2013 or prior versions)
Sounds interesting? Let’s get started then.
How to create animated charts in Power Point [VBA]
This is a guest post by Chirayu, a member of Chandoo.org forum.
Animating Charts in PowerPoint cannot be done without the help of 3rd party software’s that create a flash file of the chart & embed it into the presentation.
However there is a workaround for this. Save your chart as multiple images & insert them (overlapping on top of each other). Use VBA on Developer tab Controls such as Combo Box, Option Button, Check Box etc. to “Bring To Front”” the corresponding image. Thus giving the illusion of an Animated Chart in PowerPoint.
This guide will teach you how to animate the charts, using the three Developer tab Controls that were mentioned before. The code & functionality only works in Slide Show Mode. File must be saved as PowerPoint Macro-Enabled Presentation (*.pptm)