Comments on: List of Data Analysis and Visualization Excel Add-Ons and Utilities http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/ Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:44:13 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: DSA Insights » Blog Archive » Support Analytics - Best of 2008 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2703 DSA Insights » Blog Archive » Support Analytics - Best of 2008 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:31:58 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/#comment-2703 [...] List of Data Analysis and Visualization Excel Add-Ons and Utilities [...] [...] List of Data Analysis and Visualization Excel Add-Ons and Utilities [...]

]]> By: Excel Links of the Week [Sep 29] | Pointy Haired Dilbert - Chandoo.org http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2181 Excel Links of the Week [Sep 29] | Pointy Haired Dilbert - Chandoo.org Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:40:27 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/#comment-2181 [...] List of all data visualization and analysis excel add-ins, The list includes some of the really useful add-ins. Handy bookmark if you work with data visualization alot and need to know where to find good stuff to add to your excel capabilities. [...] [...] List of all data visualization and analysis excel add-ins, The list includes some of the really useful add-ins. Handy bookmark if you work with data visualization alot and need to know where to find good stuff to add to your excel capabilities. [...]

]]> By: DSA http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 DSA Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:31:15 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/#comment-2180 Thanks David and Fabrice for the comments! I will give you my take one of the utilities that I use often. Mike Alexander’s (Datapig) Excel Explosion. Sounds kind of funny, but when you see it you will understand. What the add-on does is create a separate tab or file for each unique value within a range. I have found this very helpful when slicing a workbook up into separate files, which I can then attach to an email. Without this utility, I would need to copy/paste the records and deleting all but one, save the file, and then start over for the next value. This add-on does it all quickly and effortlessly. Seriously, check it out! Thanks David and Fabrice for the comments!

I will give you my take one of the utilities that I use often. Mike Alexander’s (Datapig) Excel Explosion. Sounds kind of funny, but when you see it you will understand. What the add-on does is create a separate tab or file for each unique value within a range. I have found this very helpful when slicing a workbook up into separate files, which I can then attach to an email. Without this utility, I would need to copy/paste the records and deleting all but one, save the file, and then start over for the next value. This add-on does it all quickly and effortlessly. Seriously, check it out!

]]> By: Fabrice http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 Fabrice Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:03:56 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/#comment-2179 Here is a free alternative to Bissantz Sparkmaker and Bonavista MicroChart : Sparklines for Excel --> http://sparklines-excel.blogspot.com/ It includes 11 types of sparklines ... and more to come Here is a free alternative to Bissantz Sparkmaker and Bonavista MicroChart : Sparklines for Excel –> http://sparklines-excel.blogspot.com/

It includes 11 types of sparklines … and more to come

]]> By: David Gerbino http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2176 David Gerbino Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:37:49 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/#comment-2176 Here is my contribution to my Challenge # 2. I have been playing with Many Eyes at IBM's Alphaworks site. So far I have been looking at the shared data and tried some dummy data of my own. The fact that it is shared has kept me from using it for work. Either way, I urge you to check it out. I copied the About section below. Here is the link. http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home Check out the Cost of the US Government Bailouts: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SgjIIQsOtha6Ts1uot6TQ2~ Please note that you will need to create a FREE IBM account to use this tool. About Many Eyes Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project. All of us in CUE's Visual Communication Lab are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting. Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data. We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways. @dmgerbino Here is my contribution to my Challenge # 2. I have been playing with Many Eyes at IBM’s Alphaworks site. So far I have been looking at the shared data and tried some dummy data of my own. The fact that it is shared has kept me from using it for work. Either way, I urge you to check it out. I copied the About section below. Here is the link.

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home

Check out the Cost of the US Government Bailouts:

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SgjIIQsOtha6Ts1uot6TQ2~

Please note that you will need to create a FREE IBM account to use this tool.

About Many Eyes

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.

All of us in CUE’s Visual Communication Lab are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting. Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data.

We all deal with data that we’d like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.

@dmgerbino

]]> By: David Gerbino http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2175 David Gerbino Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:30:25 +0000 http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/09/list-of-data-analysis-and-visualization-excel-add-ons-and-utilities/#comment-2175 I have used many of these tools and resources before. They are all top notch. If you have never used any of them you should explore them and revisit them as much as possible. Tony has shared some that I have not heard of and some I have always meant to try. And i will be hitting everyone of those links above. Here is my challenge number 1 to all the DSA Insight Readers. Visit all the above links and try out everything and report back to this blog post about your experiences. Here is my challenge number 2. If you have a site/product to help with data visualization for Excel or data extracted from Excel for a data warehouse share it. @dmgerbino I have used many of these tools and resources before. They are all top notch. If you have never used any of them you should explore them and revisit them as much as possible. Tony has shared some that I have not heard of and some I have always meant to try. And i will be hitting everyone of those links above.

Here is my challenge number 1 to all the DSA Insight Readers. Visit all the above links and try out everything and report back to this blog post about your experiences.

Here is my challenge number 2. If you have a site/product to help with data visualization for Excel or data extracted from Excel for a data warehouse share it.

@dmgerbino

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