In this blog, I’ll share tips on how to consume RESTful APIs for maps. Specifically, getting a location point info, getting distance and travel times between two points, and even turn-by-turn driving directions. With the techniques, we can also get walking and transit mode of travel info. I’ll be leveraging Bing Maps APIs as they’re […]
Tag: Excel
Putting together our Presidents (Infographic in Excel)
In several of my earlier blogs, I demonstrated working with raw data from multiple sources to generate visual and statistical analysis. You can find them in the following posts: Let’s Play With All The Presidents (Excel)-Part1 Let’s Play With All The Presidents (Excel)-Part2 Getting To Know Our Presidents In this blog, I share the combined […]
When you’re going “blank”! (Excel, Python)
You have data (of course, you do) and you have data that have something missing (of course, you do). The question is multi-fold around that…do we ignore the data, do we remove them from your analysis, or do we interpolate to fill in the missing data? And if so, what type of interpolation is best? […]
Word Cloud III – Python & Excel together
In two my earlier blogs, I shared two methods & codes in Excel and Python on how to create Word Clouds from any text or document. You can find them here: How To Find The Most Occurring Words In A Document? (python) and Creating Word Cloud Accurately And Easily In Excel (Excel) Now, I’ll turn […]
Be the right kind of ‘Mean’
No, I’m not talking about stingy, spiteful kind…rather mathematical mean: arithmetic and statistical means to be exact. In fact, a handful of mean functions and applications. In most common situations, when we say ‘Mean’ even the statisticians mean the Average…or the arithmetic mean we all know since early childhood. We continue use it because while […]
Predicting missing/unknown information
Analysts often need to fill in the blanks in order to make longer-term decisions, or just to model different scenarios by making credulous predictions. In this post, I share just one of such scenarios and demonstrate how to make predictions using both statistical formulas manually and Excel’s feature. Lastly, we’ll see the difference between the […]
Bars within bars: Creating an Effectual Custom Chart
In this post, I’ll share some tips on how to create a visually impactful bar chart, rather bars within a bar in Excel that does not come out of the box, that can convey much information in an uncluttered way. There are several steps we need to take in order to take Excel’s built-in charts […]
Company and stock information in Excel
Excel makes it really simple to pull in latest stock information including its one-year price history, company description, even number of employees and more. In this post, I share a sample table with the latest data at the time of writing. The table below shows some of the information that are dynamic, real-time: It shows […]
How to treat Excel like a database to do complex SQL-like queries
One of the most under-utilized, most powerful query features come from Excel’s database functions. While primary usage of Excel is more as a traditional spreadsheet, and it myriad of formulas (and VBA macros), the database functions allow us to treat it like a database and query from its dataset much like SQL statements would from […]
A Risk Assessment Map—my approach
I’ve seen many pretty risk assessment maps over time. The issue I see with most of them is that they’re more of an illustration than a method meaning, they’re customized visuals with manual graphics that don’t scale well for different projects. In the post, I’ll share my approach…it’s based on applying basic statistical concept, development […]