Back in November I came across a new blog, called Data Driven Consulting. On this blog I found articles covering some of my favorite topics, including graphics and data visualization. I snooped around and discovered that the author of the blog, Alex Kerin, lives only 20 miles away from me here in the snow belt [...]

In Chart Point Limits in Excel 2010 I investigated the charting capabilities of 2010, in regards to the number of points allowed in a chart. I noted that charts with a million points took a while to redraw, but let’s not forget, a million points is a lot of points.
I decided a comparison was in [...]

In the old days, say, from Excel versions 97 through 2003, when you opened a workbook containing VBA code, you received a big ugly modal dialog box with the macro warning. You had to click a button on the dialog in order to continue. The dialog was annoying, but it was a reminder to allow [...]

I heard a rumor that Excle 2010 had expanded limits to how many points you could plot in a chart. From Excel 97 through 2007, you were limited to 32,000 points per chart series, and 256,000 points per chart. As far as I was ever concerned, this was more than enough points to make a [...]

As I wrote in My First Look at Excel 2010 and in Sparklines and Data Bars in Excel 2010, and as roughly 97% of the blogs in the whole internet have reported, Microsoft has just released the Technical Preview edition of Office 2010.
I spent my first couple hours in Excel 2010 just driving around, seeing [...]

There are two Conditional Formatting features in Excel 2010 which allow for graphical displays right in the worksheet. Sparklines, the word-sized graphical elements invented by Edward Tufte, are a new addition to Excel 2010. Data Bars were introduced in Excel 2007, but they have been improved and expanded in 2010. I gave each a test [...]

Last week Microsoft released the 2010 technical preview version of Office 2010 to an excess of noise in the media and blogosphere. You’re all probably bored spitless of all the hype. Everyone was spewing the same press release fodder, and nobody had anything of substance to report.
Two weeks ago, I wrote that my main laptop [...]