Chart Makers

Here are three options:

• RAWGraphs
• Chartbuilder
• Infogram

As always: user beware! Some of these 'free' ones / tiers can suddenly disappear or turn commerical.

Big Data

What is Big Data? Here is a nice & practical 'definition': Big data is a dataset that is too big to be processed using MS Excel. The term 'big' can mean a variety of things: size/volume (of course),  but also update frequency (real-time maybe), containing a variety of data types, and dimensionality.

Rowboat

Rowboat is a tool to quickly explore massive data tables (CSV or MS Excel) in your browser window. Sounds a little niche, but whatever works!

How to Make Maps in Excel

Python in Excel

Nerd alert: Python in Excel!

'Mapping' Time with Google Sheets

Or MS Excel: Life timeline in a spreadsheet

Dashboards in MS Excel

Well, maybe not exactly, but Anne Emery here shows some simple and effective way to quickly visualize a table using sparklines, data bars, color scales, and more: How to Make a Not-So-Scary Starter Dashboard in Excel.

Painting in ArcGIS Pro

This is cool: Painting in Pro. Reminds me a little of this: MS Excel Art.

Data Organization in Spreadsheets

Data Organization in Spreadsheets is a great little (open-access, thanks!) paper with all kinds of useful tips - perfect for helping students get better with MS Excel.

MS Excel / Google Sheets Tutorial Videos

There are 1,000s of such videos, but I like Vertex42 a lot.

• They are short and complete.
• They often use the same data set for both MS Excel and Google Sheets so it's easy to compare how these two different tools work.
• The data sets are available for download or just require some quick tying and you can follow along step-by-step.

How to prepare your data for analysis and charting in Excel & Google Sheets

Good stuff: How to prepare your data for analysis and charting in Excel & Google Sheets. Too often I find that students have no sense of basic data formatting in a table and this is a nice and concise tutorial. And that's our problem: our students tend to be incapable of the basics and therefore we never get to the 'advanced' = the dumbing-down on higher education. Thanks K-12!

Add this: How to split and extract text from data columns in Excel & Google Sheets

Making Music with MS Excel

This is awesome at some many levels:

A Real-Life Excel Test from a Job Interview: Can You Pass?

Try it! A Real-Life Excel Test from a Job Interview: Can You Pass?

Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP)

This looks great: Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP): a web-based and free data exploration and analysis tool.

Superfund Sites and Climate Change

Superfund Sites and Climate Change (from the GAO!) is just a simple interactive web map and the data are provided as an MS Excel spreadsheet.

MS Excel and Google Sheets on Steroids!

I admit: I use MS Excel a lot and I'm still amazed how much more there is 'under the hood' in terms of functions, analysis options, and charting tricks - here are a few good ones I came across recently:

• An Empty Bar (Ann K. Emery)
• Removing the Double Y Axis (Ann K. Emery)
• VLookup (Ann K. Emery)
• From Data to Charts in 5 minutes (Ann K. Emery)
• Excel Elbow Grease (great tricks by Ann K. Emery)
• Muted Grid Lines and Area Charts (Ann K. Emery)
• Number Formatting / Conditional Formatting (Ann K. Emery)
• Formatting Months, Days, and Years in Excel (Ann K. Emery)
• Label Axis and/or Data? (Ann K. Emery)
• Formatting Names (Ann K. Emery)
• Sorting and Filtering your Spreadsheets (Ann K. Emery)
• Place Labels Directly On Line Graph (Ann K. Emery)
• Custom Color Codes in Excel (Anne K. Emery)
• Categorize values with =IF() and =VLOOKUP() (Ann K. Emery)
• How to Use Vlookup in MS Excel (Anne K. Emery)
• How to match data with VLOOKUP in Excel & Google Sheets (Lisa Charlotte Muth)
• Sparklines and Data Bars (Ann K. Emery)
• Add Dotted Lines to Line Graphs (Ann K. Emery)
• Direct Labeling in Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Make a Pictogram in Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Fast Small Multiple Graphs (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Easy Dot Plots in MS Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Dumbbell Dot Plots in MS Excel I (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Dumbbell Dot Plots in MS Excel II (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Dumbbell Dot Plots Way Easier (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Make a Slopegraph in Excel (Stephanie Evergreen)
• How to make a scatter plot in Excel (Storytelling with Data)
• Adding a Benchmark Line (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Customizing Colors (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Showing Standard Deviation (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Confidence Intervals to Dot Plots (Stephanie Evergreen)
• Margin of Error in Excel with “Slider Plots” (Andrew Forsman)
• Directly Labeling Excel Charts (Jonathan Schwabish)
• Edit a ledgend in Excel (Storytelling with Data)
• Swimmer Plots (Jon Peltier)
• Pivot Tables (Jon Peltier)
• Interactive data dashboards (Ben Collins)
• Supercategory axis labels (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
• Plotting value within range (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
• Embedding a vertical reference line in Excel (Elizabeth Ricks)
• How to do it in Excel: a shaded range (Elizabeth Ricks)
• How to do it in Excel: adding data labels (Elizabeth Ricks)
• Data prep for MS Excel / Google Sheets (Chartable)
• Extract Text from Data Columns (Chartable)
• Create a dot plot (Storytelling with Data)
• Save As Template (Stephanie Evergreen)

Excel vs. Tableau vs. R

https://stephanieevergreen.com/excel-vs-tableau-vs-r/

Dynamic Mapping with MS Excel?

Perhaps not the most efficient way to map, but fun: I Made a Dynamic Hurricane Map with Excel!

The Humanitarian Data Exchange

The Humanitarian Data Exchange looks great and Joe Kerski tried it here.

To Code or to Excel?

https://xkcd.com/2180/