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Excel Links – Bacon bits are good edition

Published on Jun 23, 2009 in excel links, VBA Macros

In this edition of Excel Links, we feature a new excel blog on the blog, named bacon bits. We also share links about interesting articles like generating tinyurls using vba, making maps using xy charts, designing filters for your dashboards and more.

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Featured Visualizations – Jan 09

Published on Jan 10, 2009 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
Featured Visualizations – Jan 09

Check out user journeys and other cool visualizations in this weeks edition.

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Featured Visualizations – Jan 02

Published on Jan 2, 2009 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
Featured Visualizations – Jan 02

Every week Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates visualization and info-graphics by showcasing some of the creative and fun charting work from around the web. Have inspiration and fun. Browse hundreds of fun visualization and graphics projects in archives.

Newsmap is a creative and fun way to look at news. They organize news items on a tree map based on recency and relevancy of the news items (that are probably pulled from Google news). The background color indicates the news topic (red for world, purple for business, green for tech etc.)

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Parking Tickets in New York – Cool Interactive Visualization from NYTimes

Published on Dec 3, 2008 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
Parking Tickets in New York – Cool Interactive Visualization from NYTimes

When you have the data of 9,955,441 parking tickets from New York city, what would you do with it? Of course, you will make a visualization out of it so that anyone can know where the tickets are issued most. Check out this interactive visualization of parking tickets from NY Times.

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5 visualizations to inspire you [Nov 21]

Published on Nov 21, 2008 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
5 visualizations to inspire you [Nov 21]

The best 3d pie chart ever We all know that 3D pies are not a very good way to express your story. I guess this one is an exception we all are happy to make [via PTS Blog] How to solve problems – Interactive visualization This interactive visualization shows how to solve problems in a […]

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5 Visualizations for Your Inspiration [Nov 14]

Published on Nov 15, 2008 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
5 Visualizations for Your Inspiration [Nov 14]

Every Friday, PHD celebrates the art of chart making by posting 5 beautiful visualizations. These are truly outstanding visualizations providing good information and insights. Browse the last 4 weeks featured items by clicking these links: Visualizations for your inspiration [Nov 04] Must see info-graphics [Oct 31] 5 Beautiful Visualizations [Oct 24] Visualizations of the week […]

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5 Visualizations for your Inspiration [Nov 07]

Published on Nov 8, 2008 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
5 Visualizations for your Inspiration [Nov 07]

Every week Pointy Haired Dilbert features 5 beautiful & creative info-graphic visualizations for your inspiration. I like building, reading and sharing charts and info-graphics and it is a pleasure sharing these with you all. Happy weekend 🙂 Who donated to Obama and how much? This beautiful arc chart shows how much people have donated to […]

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Infographics of the week – Food, Maps, Privacy & Politics [Oct 31]

Published on Nov 1, 2008 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
Infographics of the week – Food, Maps, Privacy & Politics [Oct 31]

Every week, PHD celebrates the art of chart making by showcasing 5 beautiful infographics for your fun, inspiration and information. Browse 100s more wonderful infographics and have fun. Flickr Privacy Settings across the World This world map shows privacy settings used by a million sample users from 2005. The spots show photosharing options – red […]

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5 Beautiful Visualizations [Oct 24]

Published on Oct 25, 2008 in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations
5 Beautiful Visualizations [Oct 24]

Every week, Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates the art of chart making by sharing 4-5 of the most beautiful visualizations floated around the web in the last few days. Take a look at them and have some inspiration and fun 😀 Map of most popular social networks in each country This is a simple world map, […]

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Google Maps Walking Directions Bug ?!?

Published on Sep 26, 2008 in technology, wonder why

I love google maps. No, wait, I really love google maps. I think it is a perfect example of passion, intelligence and wit coming together to create software. [trivia link: google maps tells you swim across the ocean], I have been using maps to find transit directions from my hotel to office and I have […]

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Cool Info-graphics of the Week [Sep 5]

Cool Info-graphics of the Week [Sep 5]

Once every week Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates the art of chart making by sharing 4-5 of the best info-graphics featured in various web sites. Click here to see the visualizations featured earlier. Anatomy of a Great Speech – Obama’s acceptance speech at DNC Presentation Zen captures Obama’s symphony like acceptance speech in a graph shown […]

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Google Maps adds directions by Public Transport – Wow

Published on Jul 22, 2008 in ideas, technology

Wow, this is awesome. Google maps has added directions by public transport. Sometime back when they integrated public transport timings along with bus-stop / train station icons, it was pretty cool, but adding directions based on bus / train routes is totally awesome. Try it for yourself, click here to see a sample direction.

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