Filter Data Right in your Pivot Table Fields!
One of the ‘hidden treasure’ in Pivot Table a lot of people do not know about is that you can filter data right in your Pivot Table Fields. This is extremely...
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Sensitivity Study (or Scenarios) with Data Table
In managerial decision making, many time we need more than just an optimal decision. Often we would like to know how my results change if I change my decision in a certain...
PivotTable: Calculated Fields
Sometime, after you have made a PivotTable you realize you might want to do some further calculations based on the summary results. For example, After getting the total...
Dashboard with PivotTable
Dashboard is an effective communication tool to summary and highlight your data and your analysis. Here is an example of an Excel Dashboard that I made with PivotTable (and...
Data Slicer and Timeline are Useful Reporting Tools in PivotTable
Most of us know how to use a Filter in PivotTable, but do you know that there is an even better tool in slicing data in PivotTable? Yes, there is, and the name is, well, Data...
How to Draw a Combo Chart, i.e. Chart with 2 Y-axis, and Change Chart Type on a Mac
When two columns of data are of different scale, you will need to use a combo chart to plot each column on a separate axis. In the video below, one column is numbers of...
How much gasoline do we American consumers buy each week? An Example of Excel Modeling
I am a fan of Bill Gates. But the reason I bring his name up in here is because he just demonstrated the power of logical thinking, something very important in Excel modeling....
How to Draw a 3-D Chart
If you have 3-dimensional data, drawing a 3D chart can be very helpful in visualizing how the two variable jointly affect the outcome. In Microsoft Excel, such 3D charts are...
Here is Another Example on Why Excel will Never Go Away – Julia Computing
Recently I had a conversation with a colleague who argues that Excel will die because he felt people are switching to other computing environments such as R. While I agree...
Google Sheets is Catching up with Excel in Charting
Excel is still my number one choice when it comes to graphing and charting, or just first-cut exploring, but I have notice that Google Sheets is also becoming more and more...