Our today’s post is about “Power Map” is by Ben Richardson who runs Acuity Training a London-based provider of Excel courses.
Conventional charts are mostly used for displaying rather “static” data from excel sheets – i.e. if you have a table where you have manually entered data and you want to make a chart, go for the conventional excel chart.
Data bars are amongst one of the many feature excel has for presenting data.
We do create different type of charts to fulfill our charting needs – quite a few of them are related to quality control purposes.
The up and down arrows on stock exchange information board is the life line of trading business.
One have seen different types of graphics that display information, ranging from simple charts, to dashboards and miniature charts like spark lines and so on, but one of them that appealed me a lot from artistic point of view is a word cloud.
What the companies are expecting from the employee these days is that they should know everything about Excel ribbons, capability to enter and format data, the complete use of formulas to calculate total and stuff, highlighting the main data, developing reports and charts, formatting data and knowing the details about shortcuts and tricks to enhance the productivity.
Our paper is designed to accommodate two-dimensional charts, or at best 3 dimensional charts. But those charts are produced at the expense of understandability and appearance of them. What if you want to produce so many to them to accommodate cross-tabbed data?
There several ways to create in cell and that includes Excel’s built in Sparklines or using a third party Sparkline Add in, But there are ways to produce bar charts by using Excel without using these feature.
You must have come across charts that are overloaded and you find them a pain to read. Yes these are charts that look quite pretty initially but they are read and interpreted, they become unbearable.
Graphing collected data makes the interpretation of the accumulated information much easier to read, comprehend, and share with others.
Left formula? What does it returns? Well, it gives back the first character in a string. The amount of characters is given as an input and result is extracted on basis of that.
Microsoft Excel 2016 introduces a lot of new Charts for us to use in presentations.
Excel has recently introduced many new charts in its latest version.
Among the numerous new charts available on the new Excel 2016 is the Box and Whisker Chart. This chart was originally created by John Tukey in the 1970s
In business, several tools are used to analyze data. One of such tools is the histogram. The histogram is a chart, which has chart columns that signify how frequent a variable is present.
It is possible to apply step chart if you intend to monitor changes that occur at different times. This could include interest rates, tax rate, petrol and milk products.
The CLEAN formula assists you in erasing and removing all characters that cannot be printed from the text.
The Sparkline in Excel is a tiny chart, which can be included within the background a cell. This is used to provide visual representation of data, showing the variations, minimum/ maximum values and data trends.
Using UPPER(), LOWER() and PROPER() functions with NESTED IF().