Places to Go, Things to See (2008-Sept-05)
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2009.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Francisco of XL Cubed announces the development of an Excel Chart Tamer utility. This utility will be an alternative charting interface, which will offer chart types and formats designed for easy creation of effective charts. A public beta is expected in October. I’m looking forward to it.

John of cellmatrix.net explains Two-Way Variance Analysis in Post 2 of the series (Post 1 was published almost a year ago).
Large Hadron Rap – A YouTube performance celebrating the opening of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. More info from Wired article This ain’t no jive, particle physics rap is a hit.
Chandoo of Pointy-Haired Dilbert reviews seven alternatives for Microcharting in Excel. He starts with a couple versions of in-cell REPT() formulas, moves on to shrunken versions of actual Excel charts, discusses using dingbats and other fonts in cells, and finally touches on free and commercial utilities that build sparklines for you.

Possibly Related Posts:
- Weekly Links 2008-August-22
- Interesting Stuff (19 Sept 2008)
- Links for September 12, 2008
- Links and Updates 2008-August-29
- Wired’s Weird Graphics Department
- Pie Chart for Pi Day
- It’s Friday!
- Waterfall Utility – Last Time I’ll Bug You
- Ineffective Chart – Partition Chart Revisited (Defragged)
- New Feature: The Chart Doctor
Posted: Friday, September 5th, 2008 under Links.
Comments: 2
Comments
Comment from Chandoo
Time: Friday, September 5, 2008, 5:27 pm
Hey Jon.. thanks for the link love.. btw… the excel chart tamer link seems broken…
happy weekend :)
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Friday, September 5, 2008, 5:40 pm
Thanks for pointing out the broken link. I pasted the title into the URL field. Duh.
















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