May 03

Presenting statistics with motion

Seeing data presented this way is still a rare event yet showing changes across a period of time in motion rather than a series of static charts can deliver a much clearer perspective.


Nov 21

From PowerPivot to Pivot

Hot on the heels of announcing the new PowerPivot for Excel at the SharePoint conference recently, Microsoft’s Live Labs have announced another new tool with a very similar name: Pivot. So it seems we have PowerPivot for Excel and Pivot for the web. There’s no mention of whether or not the products are technically related [...]


Oct 26

Introducing Microsoft PowerPivot

So much for publishing soundbites during the recent SharePoint 2009 Conference. What can I say, I got distracted Here’s a delayed one. Microsoft announced a new product at the conference that has been going under the codename Project Gemini – PowerPivot PowerPivot is being released as an add-on component to Excel 2010 (licensing not available [...]


May 12

Excel at visualizing data

Whilst most of my software-specific consulting activities revolve around the luscious SharePoint, I’m always on the lookout to bring Excel to the party. Excel 2007 introduces some new visualization capabilities to make it easier and quicker to analyze large data sets without requiring specialist tools. If you haven’t seen what Excel can do, here’s a [...]


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