Excel tutorial: Building a dynamic, animated dashboard for U.S. political data

Who doesn’t love a dynamic, animated Excel dashboard? Here’s one I’ve been working on recently, a data visualization of historical U.S. political data, showing party trends, state populations and sitting presidents over time: In the following post, I delve into the details of how I created this dashboard. It’s not a full cell-by-cell account of … Continue reading Excel tutorial: Building a dynamic, animated dashboard for U.S. political data

Collins Analytics LLC Consulting

Please Note: I’m not taking on new clients at the moment. I’m focussing on creating new online courses. However, I’m happy to introduce you to an associate of mine who runs a Google Workspace consulting firm. Please complete this form as the first step. Data Analysis, Visualizations, Dashboard and Application Development using Google Sheets, Apps … Continue reading Collins Analytics LLC Consulting

Building a dynamic dashboard for a 3-day digital flash sale

This time last year I worked with The Write Life during their three-day sale of The Writer’s Bundle, a collection of digital products for writers. I built a dynamic dashboard using Google spreadsheets so the team could visually monitor progress throughout the sale. This year The Writer’s Bundle 2015 was bigger and better than ever, … Continue reading Building a dynamic dashboard for a 3-day digital flash sale

Creating a custom Google Analytics report in a Google spreadsheet

Continuing my recent infatuation with dashboards in Google spreadsheets, I’ve been playing around with the Google Analytics Add-on to build a custom web analytics dashboard in a Google spreadsheet. The idea originated from discussions with my wife about the tedium of preparing month-end website performance reports for her content management clients. This dashboard was a … Continue reading Creating a custom Google Analytics report in a Google spreadsheet