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1 dataset 100 visualizations.
You are not limited to the few charts that Excel recommends! This is really impressive. ~ learn more
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fun facts
1 dataset 100 visualizations.
You are not limited to the few charts that Excel recommends! This is really impressive. ~ learn more
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You suck at Excel, with Joel Spolsky.
This private presentation to an audience of engineers is now available on Youtube and its great. Joel was a program manager on the Excel team in the early ‘90s. “The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti […]
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Excel as code.
“Not counting Excel users, there are only about 30 million programmers. Estimates put the number of Excel users between 500m and over 1 billion! It is therefore, by far, the most used programming language on the planet. It is easily […]
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How to show recessions in Excel charts
In case you’ve ever faced the same challenge of highlighting certain periods on an Excel chart. | learn more
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Gene names vs Microsoft Excel
Excel wins! “Scientists have renamed 27 human genes to stop Microsoft Excel misreading them as dates.” | learn more
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10 life lessons to excel in your 30s
I probably read this a few years late. Author Mark Manson asked a bunch of people over 40 what they should have known at 30, then compiled the answers of over 600 responses. | learn more
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The ‘let me go back’ product strategy
This is another letter on strategy from Joel Spolsky written in 2000. Great stuff – especially the Excel examples (he was an Excel product manager). “When you’re trying to get people to switch from a competitor to your product, you need to […]
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Microsoft announces XLOOKUP, successor to the iconic VLOOKUP
This news blew my mind. I hadn’t even considered they might improve this. I can’t wait to try it. Two thumbs up for the Excel team at MSFT! | learn more
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The unbundling of Excel.
Some years back, someone made a graphic showing how each Craigslist category spawned today’s successful vertical marketplaces. In that sense, Excel might be the next Craigslist. “Need to calculate? Excel. How about a task list? Excel. How about a lightweight […]