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		<title>Tornado Charts in Excel 2007 Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an update to my previous post on tornado charts.
As reader Shaun pointed out, the instructions were created under Excel 2003.  Let&#8217;s refresh them to Excel 2007.
There is no need for any external add-ins for making good-looking tornado charts.  And it takes only 5 steps.  Let&#8217;s start with data in a [...]


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		<title>Logistic model for the s-curve and project management cost estimation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted a while ago an article on Modeling market adoption with a logistic curve in Excel.  It has been quite popular on this site, and even at some point was linked as a reference on Wikipedia.  Shameless plug &#8211; if you find it valuable, please ask Wikipedia maintainers to keep the link.
Recently [...]


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		<title>Extreme Makeover: Chart Edition &#8211; July 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As every week I end up receiving at lest one junkchart specimen, I&#8217;m starting the Extreme Makeover: Chart Edition series.  I&#8217;ll show the old chart, the proposed improvement, and why I believe the old one doesn&#8217;t work.  I&#8217;d love to hear your comments as well.
Here it goes:

And the makeover:
Problems:

Vertical labels: Even when the [...]


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		<title>El Juego de la Cerveza &#8211; Systems Dynamics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the activities conducted during the System Dynamics class in Colombia was the Beer Game &#8211; El Juego de la Cerveza
It allows students to experience first-hand how structure of business organizations impact their behavior, to some extent irrespectively of how skilled their managers may be.  In the game, a 3 tier distribution system [...]


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		<title>Transmilenio &#8211; a world-class example of appropriate technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is refreshing to see when developed countries take note and learn from the success stories of developing countries.  In particular, Transmilenio, Bogota&#8217;s Rapid Transit System, is an example of what E.F. Schumacher called &#8220;Appropriate Technology&#8221;
Michael Bloomberg, New York City&#8217;s mayor writes on The Economist
&#8230;we drew on the experiences of Berlin for our renewable-energy [...]


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		<title>Gearing up for summer classes in Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited about the invitation I received by Universidad de los Andes to talk about policy and decision making using a systems dynamics perspective.
I haven&#8217;t been back to Bogota since 1999, except a quick stop-over during our honeymoon.
This is also exciting as I will add more content to this website in preparation for the [...]


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		<title>System dynamics interpretation of the logistic and Bass models</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have received a number of comments regarding the Simplified Excel Model for market adoption published a few months ago.  Reader Vince asked how to extend the math behind it to comprehend effects like cross-segment interactions.
There is no simple answer, and this post is an attempt to point readers to ways to think about [...]


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		<title>Relationship between the Bass and the logistic market adoption models</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simplified market adoption model I described on previous postings (1,2) is an Excel implementation of a kind of logistic function.  The Bass model is one of the most popular models used in marketing, and management of technology to think about product introductions.  (See Wikipedia article).  From a mathematical perspective, when the [...]


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		<title>Market partition &#8211; Mekko chart in Excel, no add-ins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mekko charts are two dimensional graphs that analyze how data is partitioned against two variables, the X and Y axes. The width of the columns is proportional to data represented by the columns. Individual segment height is a percentage of the respective bar total value.


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		<title>Yet another in-cell Excel bar chart technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two improvements over the technique described by Juice Analytics and posted in Lifehacker: better resolution and solid-looking bars that show better at different font sizes.
If your values are integers in a range 0-9 or so, you can use the REPT formula as presented there, and perhaps you like the dashed type bars, so the formula [...]


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		<title>Math on the simplified market adoption s-curve for Excel</title>
		<link>http://8020world.com/jcmendez/2007/07/business/tools-methodologies/math-on-the-simplified-market-adoption-s-curve-for-excel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a number of questions on the simplified Excel s-curve formula I published some time ago, so here are more details for those interested in the math behind it.  The previous posting focused on how business analysts sometimes need to model market adoption, and provided a simple and easy to maintain formula to [...]


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		<title>Junkchart and pistongeekery on the same page!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 20:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<title>Modeling market adoption in Excel with a simplified s-curve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 10/31/2007: Here is a screencast for this model
Often business analysts need to model the adoption of a new product or service for financial planning.  There are several approaches, but a common one is the s-curve (see Wikipedia article).  Here is a simple implementation in Excel that can be easily added to your [...]


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		<title>Some more JunkChart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Theus posts here an example of poor charting or &#8220;junk charts&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to work with many organizations as a management consultant, and it&#8217;s sad to report that is more the norm than the exception to see charts like that one in the workplace.
Feeding my bad habit of thinking anytime anytime [...]


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		<title>Kerkorian keeps trying&#8230; this time is Chrysler again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that can&#8217;t be denied is Kerkorian&#8217;s persistence to get part of the action in the US automotive industry.
First, his attempt to take Chrysler private in the early nineties followed by the 2003-2005 drama of a Kerkorian-initiated federal lawsuit in which he charged that he had been deceived by DaimlerChrysler management, winning his support [...]


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		<title>Portfolio visualization &#8211; PivotGraphs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without being able to show actual graphics from the data I&#8217;m working on, due to confidentiality with my employer, this post is a note on a good technique I&#8217;ve found that could be helpful to others in the portfolio management space
I&#8217;m finding PivotGraphs a powerful tool to visualize and communicate portfolio interactions.  One example [...]


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		<title>Reading Office 2007 files with Office 2003</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you receive Excel files from external sources (analyst reports, etc.), chances are that you will start encountering the Excel 2007 format.  Those files will end in .xlsx, .xlsb or .xlsm instead of the current .xls
Office 2007 has a significant number of advantages, but some of us will be for a while stuck with [...]


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		<title>Presenting time series of market participation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One very common need in almost any industry is to show a given market, its size, the key participant and how all has evolved over the last few years.  I have used since a few years a technique I like, and yesterday I read on Juice Analytics&#8217; weblog an article describing basically the same [...]


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		<title>Where is the source file of that data?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my job I usually have to present data-rich slides that are the result of analysis on sets of data. One of my pet peeves on this types of slides is the omission of the data source.  As I always point out to analysts in training, *please* do yourself a favor: put the footnote [...]


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		<title>Easy creation of tornado charts in Excel &#8211; 5 steps, no add-ins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: A newer post is available, with Excel 2007 instructions and a screencast
Tornado diagrams are a classic tool of sensitivity analysis for decision analysis.  They are not used as frequently as you would expect, given how clearly they help showing the impact of different variables on a geven outcome.  As suggested by Ted [...]


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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had old scans of many guitar tab books as a directory of JPEG files, sequentially numbered.  That was the way the old scanner stored documents.  My SnapScan has an automatic document feeder and scans directly to PDF, which is much nicer to use.  I wanted to join these JPEGs into a [...]


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		<title>Moving email from Eudora Windows to a Mac</title>
		<link>http://8020world.com/jcmendez/2006/12/geeky-stuff/moving-email-from-eudora-windows-to-a-mac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scot Finnie writes this article on Computerworld named &#8220;A Windows expert opts for a Mac life, Part 2&#8243; where he describes his experience moving to the Mac.  His biggest hurdle to move was the transtion of Eudora mailboxes, and he ended up doing a very labor-intensive process:
The only thing that worked was to open [...]


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		<title>Normalize Excel tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business data is quite often expressed across many dimensions.  The profitability equation in a company is very simple in concept, but in practice those revenues come across regions, product lines, products etc., making them in fact multidimensional data.
Users of OLAP systems are very aware of multidimensional data.  However, many spreadsheet users are not, [...]


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		<title>Linked del.icio.us bookmarks to my pages to avoid entries that are just a bookmark</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress was an easy option to &#8220;bookmark&#8221; something while browsing the web, since I usually had one browser open on my blog.  However, it&#8217;s quite annoying to sort through many little blog entries that are no less than a bookmark with minimal extra comment.  Now I linked my del.icio.us bookmarks on the right [...]


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		<title>Column &#8211; Stack combination chart in Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Méndez-García</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not very common, but sometimes useful, this chart is made up of a series of column pairs, where the one of them is a simple column and the other one is broken down in segments.

Last time I used it to show budgeted project expenditures versus actuals, month by month.  The right column, actuals, was [...]


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