A line chart in Crystal Xcelsius: how difficult can it be?
Can Crystal Xcelsius replace Excel as a charting tool? As the regular readers know, I am creating an Xcelsius version of my Excel Demographic Dashboard to answer this simple question.
I am afraid the results until now are less than stellar. Although I could easily add four gauges with the four main demographic KPI, I am […]
Is Crystal Xcelsius a toy piano?
Pascal Comelade, a french musician, plays toy pianos for a living. How many of us could do the same? How many of us could (professionally) use toys instead of our standard, grown-up tools?
Now imagine that a toy maker starts marketing their toys as serious musical instruments. How would Beethoven’s 5th Symphony sound like? At first, […]
XCelsius Dashboard: the population pyramid
Can my Excel Demographic Dashboard be recreated in Crystal XCelsius? This is the main theme for this series of posts. In the first post I set the stage, define the rules and show how the basic “demographic KPI’s” can be displayed using gauges. The second post discusses one of the major drawbacks I find […]
How-to screencasts: Population pyramids in Excel
Screencast: How to create a population pyramid in Excel.
I am a big fan of screencasts, as a regular reader of this blog may have already noticed. They are great at showing how to use a tool to get something done and they are the best companions for tutorial (e-)books.
This hypotetical regular reader might also […]
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