I got an e-mail last week just a few hours into Round 1 of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The subject of the email was simply “dumb graph,” and the key line in the note was: The “game flow” graph…how in the WORLD is that telling me anything? That …
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How’s that for a book title? Would it pique your interest? Would you download it and read it? Do you have friends or co-workers who would be interested in it? Why am I asking? Because it doesn’t exist. Yet. Call it a working title for a project I’ve been kicking around in …
I’ll put my standard big, fat, hairy disclaimer here that this blog is not about Excel tips. There are lots of resources for that. As a matter of fact, the Contextures blog is one that I stumbled across after Debra commented on my last Excel tip. Nevertheless, here’s a handy …
For a variety of reasons, I find myself using Excel (2003) through remote desktop fairly regularly these days, and I just haven’t gotten around to setting up some of the basics that I’ve got set up on my main system. The big one is my setup of <Ctrl>-<Shift>-<V> as Paste …
I’ve glanced through various folks’ copies of Stephen Few’s Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data on several occasions over the past few years. And, it was a heavy influence on the work that an ad hoc team in the BI department at National Instruments undertook a couple …
Categorize this as the most tactical of Excel posts ever. But, doggonit, it sometimes amazes me how many really, really, really handy features of Excel most people don’t even know exist. Even in Excel 2003. This is one that I showed to a co-worker several weeks back as I was …