New Excel 2016 Chart Types

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Microsoft continues to innovate one of my favorite tools, Excel. I love charts and they just added six new types!

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Treemap provides a hierarchical view of the data

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Waterfall shows a running total, both positive and negative

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Pareto is used to highlight your largest factor in a data set

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Histogram is used to show frequency data

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Box and Whisker shows distribution of data and highlights outliers

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Sunburst shows hierarchical data via rings

Which one is your new favorite chart?

~ GW

Home Remote on Xbox One

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This is really a follow-on to my post on the Ecobee3. Recently Microsoft updated the Xbox One so Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps will work on it. One of those apps can control the Ecobee3 and a bunch of other devices.

It just keeps getting better, but something that works on Xbox doesn’t help me sell it to the wife.

~ GW

Hat tip: WindowsCentral

I am a blogger again…

It has been a few years, but I have gotten the bug to give this another try. I am on the path to a new career in Enterprise Architecture while at the same time executing the role of CTO for the federal agency where I work. This mixture has introduced me to a variety of topics and products that I want to share.

Hopefully this will become useful for others who are interested in the same areas of interest I am, which will include:

  • DevOps
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 10 Mobile
  • Office 365
  • New technologies
  • Conferences

I look forward to building a catalog of content that will help others find resources and books that I am consuming.

~ GW