{"id":965,"date":"2007-05-26T07:41:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=965"},"modified":"2007-05-26T07:41:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T11:41:32","slug":"excel-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Excel zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\">Edward Tufte<\/a> in terms of information design, even if he did clash with <a href=\"http:\/\/useit.com\">Jakob Nielsen<\/a> in an OK\/Cancel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cancel.com\/comic\/22.html\">superhero spoof of HCI gurus<\/a>. Every year or so I dip into the website to see if there&#8217;s more stuff I need to learn. Tufte hates PowerPoint and Excel with a passion, though many of us don&#8217;t have the time to climb the learning curve of alternative programs.<\/p>\n<p>But to the point: if you work with Excel, check out Juice Analytics&#8217; wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/juiceanalytics.com\/writing\/\">writings about improving charts<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have time to work with them at the moment (too busy with other items this week), but I will create beauty using these tools someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Edward Tufte in terms of information design, even if he did clash with Jakob Nielsen in an OK\/Cancel superhero spoof of HCI gurus. Every year or so I dip into the website to see if there&#8217;s more stuff I need to learn. Tufte hates PowerPoint and Excel with a passion, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments","category-writing-and-editing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-fz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}