How to make an Interactive Chart Slider Thingy
Ok, I will be honest. I have no idea what to call it. May be Chart Cover Flow? But Interactive Chart Slider Thingy sounds so better. So let’s go with it.
Learn how to create this magical contraption in Excel.
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.
Excel Links – PASS BA 2015 Edition
In about 3 days, I am leaving to USA for participating in PASS Business Analytics conference – 2015. It is an annual event for people in analytics profession. This is the first time I am attending & speaking at the event. I am so excited for many reasons.
- I will be meeting many Excel bloggers, authors & internet friends for the first time
- I will be meeting many of you (readers, listeners, followers & customers of Chandoo.org) too
- I will be speaking at an awesome conference
- I will be visiting San Francisco for the first time in life
- I will be meeting a few college friends too
All this excitement means, I have too much going on. But that shouldn’t leave you out . So here are a few awesome Excel links for you. Check out and learn.
How to create an Interactive Chart in Excel? [Tutorial]
Imagine you have a worksheet with lots of charts. And you want to make it look awesome & clean.
Solution?
Simple, create an interactive chart so that your users can pick one of many charts and see them.
Today let us understand how to create an interactive chart using Excel.
Speeding up & Optimizing Excel – Tips for Charting & Formatting [Speedy Spreadsheet Week]
Is Excel acting slow & taking ages? As part of our Speedy Spreadsheet Week, today lets talk about optimizing & speeding up Excel by formatting & charting better. Use these tips & ideas to super-charge your sluggish workbook.
No matter how much data you got, how many formulas you wrote, the end users seldom see them on your workbook. They see the finalized dashboard, they play with the model, they look at the report. And if you make poor choices, your end users will thing your workbook is slow.
So let me present you 7 charting & formatting tips to optimize & speed up Excel. Read on…,
Free Picture Calendar Template – Download and make a personalized calendar today!
Here is something fun, personalized and delicious to start your new year. A Picture Calendar built in Excel!
Using this you can print a 12 month calendar with your own photos. Its fun to use, easy to set up and looks great. Read more to understand how this works & download the template.
Excel Training Recommender – Interactive Excel Tool for you
First a Quick Announcement: Our VBA Class enrollments will be closed this Friday (Sep 16). If you want to learn VBA & Excel, please consider joining our course. More than 120 students have already joined us in the second batch and are learning VBA as you read this. Click here to learn more about the VBA Classes and join us.
Moving on…,
As you may know, Chandoo.org offers quite a few Online Excel training programs. Over the last few weeks, many of you have emailed us and asked which training program is best for your situation. This got me thinking. “It should be easy for YOU to know what is best.”
So today morning, I locked my office room and made a beautiful Excel workbook that asks you only 2 questions and tells you which training programs are best for you. Try it here.