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Graphs and Sheets

By Nick Hodge | July 26, 2006

State of the Com­puter Book Mar­ket, Q206 details in a Tree­Map 2D graph the rise of C# and Ruby, decline of Java as languages.

In typ­ical MBA fash­ion, I am enam­ored with the graph. How do you cre­ate these style of graphs? How does the set of data need to be format­ted? The graph is an excel­lent way to show trends; growth, decline and rel­at­ive size all in one.

Which leads me to Microsoft Office 2007. The beta was avail­able a month of so ago. As a pro­fes­sional Excel jockey, Excel 2007 was the first applic­a­tion I launched. (OK, second. Out­look 2007 was first!). You know, its the little things…

The designer that re-engineered the “Named Ranges” and “Pivot­Table” UI in Excel 2007 needs a medal. Love it.

To rad­ic­ally redesign an inter­face in a set of applic­a­tions that are dir­ectly attached to know­ledge worker pro­ductiv­ity is a brave move. Pro­fes­sional Pho­toshop users keep Adobe hon­est when it comes to mak­ing life easy. Do know­ledge work­ers have a sim­ilar voice?

Now cross­ing my fin­gers for Tree­Maps in Excel 200x.

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