Excel User Conference Recap
by Jon Peltier
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
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The 2008 East Coast Excel User Conference was held last Wednesday through Friday. We met at the Trump Taj Mahal casino and hotel, I mean, resort (which doesn’t mean sort again). The conference was organized by Damon Longworth, and the presenters included Damon as well as Bob Umlas, Bernard Liengme, and myself. The rigorous three-day schedule included six half-day classes and eight regular sessions. There were 40 or so attendees. Most attended on all three days, and a stalwart 20 lasted until the end of the day on Friday. |
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Damon and Bernard share their wisdom.
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Jon stars in two of his presentations.
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A rapt audience follows the speaker closely.
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Bob (above left), Bernard (above), and Jon (left).
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Fellow blogger Jimmy Peña (right) wrote about the day he spent at the conference in My Excel User Conference Experience. Jimmy’s blog Code For Excel And Outlook Blog includes many VBA macro code samples for MS Excel and Outlook. |
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Posted: Sunday, September 28th, 2008 under Conferences.
Comments: 11
Comments
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Time: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 10:30 pm
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Comment from Tony
Time: Monday, September 29, 2008, 8:59 am
Jon, glad to hear things went well. I was wondering why you’ve been so quiet the last few workdays.
Here’s an interesting observation: It appears from the photo that the audience is predominately all men. Were there any women at the conference? Seems to me this “space” is dominated by men for some unknown reason.
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Monday, September 29, 2008, 9:32 am
Tony -
I’d expected to blog from the conference, but it was pretty busy.
There were women at the conference, comprising probably 20 to 25% of the attendees. That picture may have been taken when I was presenting in the second room, which might explain the dearth of women in the picture.
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Time: Monday, September 29, 2008, 5:38 pm
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Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Monday, September 29, 2008, 6:03 pm
Hi Mark -
The plug-in looks interesting. Does it provide any graphical elements which are more effective than these dial gauges? In general these gauges look pretty, and extend the metaphor of airliner cockpit well beyond where it belongs. Unfortunately, these graphs are not particularly effective at facilitating comprehensible judgments and comparisons.
Comment from Mark Phillips
Time: Monday, September 29, 2008, 7:08 pm
Hi Jon,
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Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Monday, September 29, 2008, 7:27 pm
Mark -
One problem with a gauge chart is that it occupies a rather large amount of space to show very little information. Rather than showing one data point for the current month’s data, a simple line chart no larger than the gauge could show performance against goals for the past twelve months. This way the single number for this month is given some useful context.
Comment from ExcelPro’s chart blog
Time: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 9:40 am
Hi Jon:
It ’s a pity that we chinese couldnt take your class , I have introduced your class in my blog,http://excelpro.blog.sohu.com/100383276.html, so many friends are looking forward to it.
Comment from JP
Time: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 8:37 am
I was taking a PowerPoint class here at work yesterday and the presenter showed how you can paste a chart into a PPT slide. I pointed out that the entire workbook gets pasted into the slide, and showed how you can access the underlying data by clicking on the chart. Something I learned from you at the EUC, which I wouldn’t have otherwise known if I hadn’t attended. Made me look like a hero :)
–JP
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 9:21 am
Jimmy -
There’s a know-it-all in every class! I always learn a few things from attendees at these conferences.
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