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		<title>How to Mass-produce Excel Charts</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/06/how-to-mass-produce-excel-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/06/how-to-mass-produce-excel-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem:
You need charts to help you and your audience see trends and relationships in an Excel spreadsheet’s data.  However, there is too much data to show in a single chart.   So, you need to create many separate charts for the report (as in the example below).

In addition, the size of the data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashboards and Reporting for Excel Pivot Tables</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/06/dashboards-and-reporting-for-excel-pivot-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/06/dashboards-and-reporting-for-excel-pivot-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dashboards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[excel pivot tables]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consolidate data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dazzle associates with dashboards and insightful reports automatically  generated by analyzing data spread over multiple spreadsheets (save time and  effort, too).
Excel pivot tables and pivot charts are great tools for one-time analysis of  data tables in a single spreadsheet. But, without automation, you can’t use them  to share your findings with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nifty Utility to Create Clustered and Stacked Column Charts</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/nifty-utility-to-create-clustered-and-stacked-column-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/nifty-utility-to-create-clustered-and-stacked-column-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stacked column]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re trying to cram a 3-dimensional set of comparative data points into a single chart, you should consider a clustered and stacked column chart.   For example, if you want to compare sales across 3  regions, 2 groups, and 4 quarters, that&#8217;s a 3-dimensional comparison that requires a chart that looks like this:
For Excel users, this is not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Bar Charts</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/bad-bar-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/bad-bar-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bad bar chart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clown chart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[condom chart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dashboard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[KPI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plain bar charts have been a staple of choice among data-visualization experts.   Many presenters or marketers tend to make fancy variants of bar charts in an attempt to &#8220;wow&#8221; their audiences.  The results can make presentation professionals recoil in horror.
Jon Peltier wrote this informative and amusing blog post on one such bad bar chart.  Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-time Dashboards: Not Appropriate for Business</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/real-time-dashboards-not-appropriate-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/real-time-dashboards-not-appropriate-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[dashboards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dashboard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[KPI]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/?p=7</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The marketing departments of &#8220;business intelligence dashboards&#8221; keep emphasizing that their dashboards give managers &#8220;real-time&#8221; or &#8220;up-to-the-minute&#8221; information on how their business is doing.  They make it sound like a real benefit that all managers and business owners should appreciate.  Don&#8217;t be fooled.
At the lower levels of the organization, where people are responsible for operations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Consider Excel Dashboard Components?</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/time-to-consider-excel-dashboard-components/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/time-to-consider-excel-dashboard-components/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[dashboards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[components]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Excel dashboards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of material written by Excel MVPs on how to create Excel  dashboards. One of the most popular sources of information for this is the ebook  and templates by Charles Kyd of http://www.exceluser.com/
In this  post, I look at the concept of building and using Excel dashboard components.  Like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should the Role of Excel Be?</title>
		<link>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/what-should-the-role-of-excel-be/</link>
		<comments>http://viewpoints.excel-dashboard.com/2009/01/what-should-the-role-of-excel-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[dashboards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[introduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I have been on both  sides of IT. As a manager of business units, I have been an impatient  “customer.” As a software developer and manager of teams of software developers,  I have experienced the frustrations of IT with the business side’s ever-changing  requirements.
In this post, I explore [...]]]></description>
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