How to Visualize Age/Sex Patterns with Population Pyramids
Check out this use case in Excel of a state public health agency that wanted to depict how many males and females were diagnosed with a disease and the age at which they were diagnosed. In other words, there were just two simple variables: age and sex. Read more about it.How one artist brought her vision to life using Excel spreadsheets
Landscape architect by day, Microsoft Excel artist by night. Australia native Emma Stevens isn’t your average artist. She uses spreadsheets to create skyline imagery out of text. Inspired by the Melbourne skyline, Stevens began to create her artwork in a spreadsheet by building an image of the city with words through a spreadsheet app. She added an image of the Melbourne skyline to the background of a spreadsheet, typed the word “Melbourne” in the cell rows, and divided the columns to define each building. Using column breaks and letter shading, Stevens gave each building depth. From a distance, the image looks like the Melbourne skyline, but up close it becomes clear that the name of the city makes up the structure of the entire image. Learn more about it in the Microsoft 365 blog.New book by Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo
Just found what announced few months ago Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel (Business Skills) is finally published. So far had no chance to read it all, but on the first glance it will be another must book for everyone who works with DAX, as famous “The Definitive Guide to DAX”. Anyway, if you know these authors there is no need in advert, just their names.Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt will join us in Seattle on the Microsoft Data
We’re thrilled to announce Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt will join us in Seattle on the Microsoft Data Insights Summit stage. For more than a decade, these bestselling authors have been creating a data culture — showing us all how we can make smarter, savvier decisions with data. Register now to join us at the event and catch their keynote on June 13.Announcing our great lineup of featured speakers for the Microsoft Data Insights Summit!
We recently shared our full session catalog for this year’s Microsoft Data Insights Summit. This week we want to highlight some of the featured speakers we’ll have at the event. The Data Insights Summit includes an amazing mix of BI experts, product partners, community members, and Microsoft product engineers – all at the conference to help you learn how make the most of your data. We’re thrilled to spotlight Amanda Cofsky, Brian Jones, Chris Webb, Danielle Dean, Jennifer Stirrup, Justyna Lucznik, Kim Manis, Marco Russo, and Rob Collie. Read the full blog story here!
