Archive for the ‘Excel’ Category
Extract Data From PDF Tables
Thursday, July 17th, 2014Tabula: Very nice utility to extract data from a PDF table: Just upload the PDF file, highlight the table you want to extract, you’ll get a preview, and download the data in CSV format. Pretty cool!
Raw Data Visulaizations – From Excel to RAW to Ilustrator
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013Interesting application which can bridge a bit the space between Excel data and Illustrator visualization work.
Indicator Display
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013Nice example of an attractive and both visual and textual display of indicators.
From an Excel-Chart to a nice looking one
Monday, September 2nd, 2013Nice evolution from a standard (and as such published) Excel chart to a nice, innovative looking one (although perhaps a bit more challenging to read).
Formula for counting percentages between negative values
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013Say, you have “300” and “-300” as two values and want to calculate the percentage change between them. With the formula
"=(A2 - B2) / ABS(B2)"
it’ll do it.
How to Visualize and Compare Distributions
Thursday, November 15th, 2012Nice tutorial with a few interesting ideas about how to display distributions.
Excel: Making a Panel Chart (Instead of a Broken Chart)
Friday, November 9th, 2012Interesting idea to use a “panel chart” instead of a broken chart.
Animated Graph: How-to
Monday, April 23rd, 2012In order to use the “dygraphs“, do the following:
- Prepare your values (for example, divide by 1.000.000; add “Date” to the right field, concatenate(Field-with-year,”-01-01″))
- Copy from Mac to Windows, insert into Excel, change date again to right format
- Save as CSV
- Replace “;” with “,”
Excel: How to “Unpivot” a Table
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Great VisualBasic script for Excel which does exactly that:
Option Explicit
Sub MoveData()
Dim LC As Long, LRO As Long, NR As Long, HowMany As Long, a As Long, b As Long
Dim c As Range, rng As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
LRO = Sheets("Output").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
If LRO > 1 Then Sheets("Output").Range("A2:E" & LRO).ClearContents
NR = 2
With Sheets("Input")
LC = .Cells(1, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column
For Each c In .Range("A2", .Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
Set rng = .Range(.Cells(c.Row, 3), .Cells(c.Row, LC))
HowMany = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(rng, ">-10000")
If HowMany > 0 Then
.Range("A" & c.Row & ":C" & c.Row).Copy Sheets("Output").Range("A" & NR & ":A" & NR + HowMany - 1)
b = NR
For a = 4 To LC Step 1
If .Cells(c.Row, a).Value > -10000 Then
Sheets("Output").Range("D" & b) = .Cells(1, a)
Sheets("Output").Range("E" & b) = .Cells(c.Row, a)
b = b + 1
End If
Next a
NR = NR + HowMany
End If
Next c
End With
Sheets("Output").Select
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Excel: Automatically alternate row colors (one shaded, one white)
Monday, August 29th, 2011Good tip here!
Most importantly:
When the Conditional Formatting window appears, select “Formula Is” in the drop down. Then enter the following formula:
=mod(row(),2)=1
Next, we need to select the color we want to see in the alternating rows. To do this, click on the Format button.
Excel: Don’t Chart NoData (NULL) Values
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Just use “#N/A” in the cell to avoid charting NoData values.
Change Units
Thursday, June 30th, 2011Really useful and nicely designed website to convert between different units.
Number Formats in Microsoft Excel
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011Good source of information about custom number formats in Excel.
Excel: Constant Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
Friday, February 25th, 2011In order to calculate the (average) annual growth rate over multiple year, use this formula:
CAGR: =((End Value/Start Value)^(1/(Periods - 1)) - 1
Data Converter
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010Takes CSV or tab-delimited data from Excel and converts it into several web-friendly formats, include JSON and XML.
Boxplot
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Great script (in CSS and Javascript) which makes it really easy to display boxplots on a website. Great!
Excel: Concatenate Multiple Fields
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Wonna concatenate numerous fields to obtain all values in a single cell? Here’s the script:
Sub ConcatenateAll()
Dim x As String, rng As Range, cel As Range, v_new As Integer, v_old As Integer
With ActiveSheet
Set rng = .Range("F2:F2736")
For Each cel In rng
v_new = Int(cel.Value)
If (v_new <> v_old) Then
x = x & "," & Int(cel.Value)
End If
v_old = v_new
Next
.Range("G2").Value = x
End With
End Sub
And in order to insert a little bit more complicated string in ArcGIS’s Field Calculator, you need to do this:
"<img src='http://localhost/graph.php?data=36,36,37," & Int([wohnfl_per]) & "' />"
Excel: Change between Two Cells in Percentages
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Change = A2/A1 - 1
(Cell format: Percentage)
Excel Scatter Labels
Friday, February 13th, 2009A very commonly requested Excel feature is the ability to add labels to XY chart data points. The XY Chart Labeler adds this feature to Excel. The XY Chart Labeler provides the following options:
Add XY Chart Labels – Adds labels to the points on your XY Chart data series based on any range of cells in the workbook.
Move XY Chart Labels – Moves the entire set of data labels or individual labels in any direction and in the increment of your choosing.
Manual Labeler – When you don’t want to label an entire data series, but rather use data labels to highlight specific data points, the manual labeler allows you to do this.
Even though this utility is called the XY Chart Labeler, it is capable of labeling any type of Excel chart series that will accept data labels.