Excel Development: Building the Naughty-Nice-Ometer from scratch

199 views · Published 25 September 2014 · 12:53 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: Excel On Fire (Oz du Soleil) · 2014 · Education

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This is a high speed video that goes through the details of making the Naughty-Nice-Ometer in Excel.

The demo video is here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpI3b5ETti8
Blogpost:
http://datascopic.net/santa-or-krampus/
Download the Naughty-Nice-Ometer here:
http://datascopic.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NNOmeter-from-scratch.xlsx

It's a fun little application but there's a lot going on in what's basically a tracker. With modifications this can be used to track and summarize just about anything. You'll see Excel
-  Spreadsheet layout
-  Tables
-  Formula triggers
-  Images that change based on cell values
-  Data bars
-  SUMIFS
-  COUNTIFS
-  VLOOKUP
-  IF
-  Hidden columns
-  Adding text to shapes

The original video was 48 minutes. I decided not to bore you with all of that, but it shows that this can be created in less than 1 hour. 

Hopefully you'll get something out of this. Let me know. And please ask questions if you have any.

Image credits:
Santa:
http://artbybones.deviantart.com/art/Santa-Under-the-Northern-Light-24012409
Krampus:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Krampus-147337943

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