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Archive for Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

A Retrospective on Charting

by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.

My daughter’s got a dentist appointment now, so I’ll try to whip off a quick post while sitting in the waiting room.
While looking up a topic on Charley Kyd’s ExcelUser.com site, I stumbled across his historical article The First Dashboard Used in Spreadsheets. This sample dashboard is so old, it predates Excel*. Charley presented it [...]

Charting Seasonal Sales Data in Excel using Cycle Plots

by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.

No time for a full post today (busy busy!), but I wanted to point you to a well written article by my colleague and fellow Excel MVP Charley Kyd of ExcelUser.com, who explains how to Create Cycle Plots in Excel to Chart Seasonal Sales Data.
If you simply plot date-related data, you may notice cyclical patterns, [...]

Create Excel dashboards quickly with Plug-N-Play reports.