Jul 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
If you are someone who uses Microsoft Excel to generate statistics-based business reports, create forecasts or do alot of routine Excel manipulations, this is why you need to know Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). It makes you work faster. A lot more faster. Here are some more reasons: 1. All versions of Excel support the [...]
May 23, 2010 | Discuss
This is an info-graphic I created in Microsoft Excel. It shows the population composition of Singapore in 2009. The world map and the stick-man was from the standard web-ding font. The only exception was the Singapore flag which I copied from Wikipedia. Nothing fancy was used. Just pure Excel 2007 features, no more no less. [...]
May 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yes they do. Which is why you hardly get any good support when you have a problem with it. Try opening a support ticket when you hit a snag with Excel. It won’t see the light of day. So why do IT folks hate Microsoft Excel? 1. It’s tough for IT folks to distribute and [...]
Jul 12, 2010 | Discuss
On 20 April 2010, a BP oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. This Microsoft Excel line chart illustrates some key events 2 months after the explosion and BP’s stock price using a common Date horizontal axis. The resulting chart is rich in information yet it’s [...]
Jul 05, 2010 | Discuss
Traditional Microsoft Excel line charts have a common problem. It is hard to visually associate the data points with the horizontal axis. The traditional axis line is no help at all. We can get around this problem by using data markers. Certainly an improvement, but we still need to mentally drop imaginary lines between the [...]
Search engine rankings are never really all that surprising. Google is always first, Yahoo! is definitely second and Bing comes in third every month, without fail. Sometimes Yahoo! or Bing will rise or fall just a little bit and one will benefit from the other’s loss, but it’s never a massive drop.
January’s rankings were also on the same lines. Google came first, Yahoo! came second and Microsoft came third, experiencing a slight gain over the previous month. However, in a most unusual turn of events Microsoft gained at the expense of Google for the first time.
According to ComScore (via CNet), Google’s dominant share of the search market slipped by 0.3 percentage points to 65.4 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. Because of this, Bing increased by 0.6 percentage points to 11.3 percent of all searches. Yahoo! lost another 0.3 percent, dropping to 17 percent of all searches.
Microsoft Bing has experienced almost consistent growth since it launched last May, rising from 8.4 percent in June to its current 11.3 percent. Bill Gates once told the press that the search engine created by microsoft is the best product till date created by Microsoft. Hope that turns out true. People are already fascinated by the interface provided by Bing. Let us wait and see if Bing can sustain its growth