Show Top and Bottom Results in a Chart-Table
The workbook that supports the following figure does a lot of work!
First, it uses Power Query to download the weekly unemployment claims and the...
Calculate Mortgage Payments and Your ROA with an Excel CalcPlot Chart
An Excel CalcPlot Chart allows you to plot values in three dimensions, not merely two. Here are two examples.
Mortgage Paments
Mortgage interest rates are at...
Here’s How Inflation Could Affect the Value of Your Home
November 5, 2021
Inflation is rising in the U.S. And that made me wonder how a higher rate of inflation could affect the price of...
How to Split and Index Delimited Text with Excel Formulas
For the longest time I've wished that Microsoft would add a SPLIT function to Excel. The function would have a syntax like this...
=SPLIT(text, delimiter,...
Chart Recessions and Other Boolean Conditions in Excel
I doubt you’ve seen an Excel chart like this before. It shows multiple Boolean conditions that might affect the trend in the annual Rate...
US National Financial Conditions Using Excel Panel Charts
I’ll explain the meaning of this chart figure shortly. But first, let’s look at it from an Excel perspective.
(Note: I’ve begun to use economic...
Professional Quality Excel Chart Labels, Legends, and Colors
The following Excel chart shows that Excel really CAN generate professional-quality chart figures.
Here are some general strategies to consider…
1. Set up your data-plumbing correctly....
An Excel Chart of a Major U.S. Supply Chain Problem
October 23, 2021
A shortage of truckers now appears to be the greatest problem with the United States' supply chain.
In fact, President Biden said in...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
Weighing Your Debt Load
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
I've talked to any number of business owners over the years who felt buried under a mountain of debt. But...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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