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BUSINESS SCIENCE
Business charts in Excel
An example of the ‘big data’ we deserve
Update (September 2020): you can now get direct access to source code and ready-to-use plug-in to achieve the results below with zero effort; link:
Introduction
I typically write about our business applications: creating value from automated decisions.
Today instead I will focus on an often unloved, yet crucial, part of the chain: using Excel to extract last-mile insights from the mountain of data we process.
While everyone can do it, too many still try and fail mastering this skill.
My view is that honing crucial Excel charting skills means unleashing the most powerful and cheapest workhorse endowed to the modern manager!
Our products, among many other things, also produce automated Excel charts for our clients; our product development team manually reviews output with a number of tools, including Excel. Therefore I have grown a professional interest in making this topic accessible.
We all can discover the visual secrets of ‘big data’ even just using Excel, when doing things right; this post details my…
