Wallpapering Fog: Dashboard software - why we chose what we chose. Some time ago, I wrote a post that laid out what I want from a piece of dashboarding and data visualisation software. We had just finished going through the process of selecting a software platform and I'd intended to lay out over a series of posts the different options that I looked at and explain how we made our final choice.
Apart from a review of Excel Services (summary: it's sort of ok, but you can do much better for the money), the series didn't get very far. Due to the overwhelming volume of emails Despite a complete lack of emails accusing me of being a lazy so and so who doesn't finish what he starts, I'm going to quickly wrap up the conclusions here. First, the contenders. Some of these I looked at for longer than others and I can guarantee a few first round knockouts.
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Clearly and Simply. 3 Examples of how to use an ActiveX Spreadsheet Control as a Tooltip on a Microsoft Excel Worksheet The recent post described how to use an ActiveX Spreadsheet Control as a tooltip on Excel worksheets. At first sight this seemed to be a nifty little idea to spice up tooltips on Microsoft Excel worksheets. In the meantime, however, I had to learn that there is a major pitfall: The heart of the solution, the ActiveX Spreadsheet Control is part of the so called Office Web Components. So far, so good. The problem is that Microsoft does not ship the Office Web Components with Office 2007 and later anymore.
In other words, in a clean, new Office 2007/2010 installation, the ActiveX Spreadsheet Control is not available anymore. At the end of the previous post I announced a follow up article with more practical examples using the technique. Today’s post provides 3 different use cases of how to take advantage of the ActiveX Spreadsheet Control in a tooltip: Alan Smithee Presents: Multiple Levels of Aggregation. Joe Mako's Tumblr. Tableau Customer Conference 2011: Session Materials. Fast Analytics and Rapid-fire Business Intelligence from Tableau Software.