Now that the 2019 NFL regular season is in the books, we have complete data available about the teams’ performances. What can we glean from them? In this blog, I share some findings, answers, and the process of analytics behind discovery of the answers. I will focus on overall team performance data, not individual positions, […]
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A Real Data Merge Challenge (Excel)
Instead of demonstrating what each of the thousands of functions does in Excel, it’s most helpful, I think to demonstrate how to solve real-life scenarios and the formulas that come in handy as secondary. Today, I present this. The Challenge: You are given 2 datasets of fruits and their prices. One set includes some items/fruits […]
Claim: Most 13th of the months fall on Fridays anyway (+Test)
Someone claimed recently that most 13th of the months fell on Fridays in recent years. This claim came upon the heels of my blog on how to find Friday-13ths for any year in Excel. So, obviously I had to check it out for myself if the claim is true. And I want to check it […]
Weather report in Excel
Below is a 10-day weather report for Seattle in Excel using external data connections. The following is the live embedded sheet (however, online Excel does NOT support external data connections in the browser…yet). To get the data to refresh, just save the file locally or click Open in Desktop App button along the top of […]
Happy Friday (the 13th!). Have you ever wondered…?
If you’re anything like me, you’ve at least once wondered: How can I get Excel to show me all the Friday-13ths in any given year? Well, I have (don’t ask me why)…and here’s the solution. I found a couple of ideas on how to do this, but my method I believe, is the most straight-forward […]
About your birthday and more (Excel)
Here’s a basic application in Excel I put together for fun that gives information about a birth date. For example, which day of the week was the person born? What’s the zodiac sign? The zodiac symbol for the person, and also a direct link to a web site to find his/her horoscope information (including daily […]
Ranked, custom charts and animation (Excel)
In this blog, I share how to use simple data, and create some meaningful charts, even with animation and custom graphics. Along the way, I’ll demonstrate techniques to rank and spark some ideas on PowerPoint<->Excel interaction. Let’s start with the dataset. Following are the responses from a survey of 1,002 consumers from a couple of […]
Fight to the end-Draw vs AI (Chess)
An interesting game video between me and the AI where we had a blood bath early in the game and it had recouped its Queen, lost it again, and then betted on getting another one, but alas, it didn’t and it came down to one pawn advantage…finally only the kings remained.
Messaging/Communication
Which messaging worked better you think in each of the following situations? And why? Carwash Punchcard: Hotel Towel Reuse:
Random Fun with Excel
This is a seemingly useless but visually fun usage of visuals, combined with Excel functions and VBA I did to take a break from my typical gnarly Excel analytics work 🙂 How it works: 1. Fill in a formula to generate random numbers between 1 and 100 (inclusive) across the cell range. 2. Apply 2 […]