My favorite expert on Excel is Mr. Excel, Bill Jelen. His book Charts and Graphs for Microsoft Excel 2007 is my “bible” for creating charts of all kinds and making them graphically interesting. A favorite chapter, “Knowing When Someone is Lying to You with a Chart,” contains examples like these two charts—created from the same set of data—which send very different messages to viewers.
While I don’t have a budget that would let me hire Bill Jelen as a guest speaker for my online course, he has generously given me permission to recreate his charts for online educational use. His video podcasts are offered free, as well as a PDF version of his 486-page book, Learn Excel.
He explains why he shares the book freely online: “My goal is to get this version in the hands of 5 million people. You can help by downloading the book and passing it on to your co-workers, etc. Some percentage of people who get the book will buy a print copy or will buy a printable e-book, so I believe that the counter-intuitive strategy of giving the whole book away in one download will work fine.”
These resources from Mr. Excel provide excellent course content.
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Awesome resource to find! :-)
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