6.2.15

Two New Cases

Here are two new Excel based cases I have just prepared that I know some of you will appreciate.

UK Petrol Prices

I downloaded a file of all retail petrol and diesel prices for the UK from 2003 to 2014. The task is to prepare an interactive table so that the user just enters a date in one cell and the table then shows the


  • retail pump price per litre

  • duty per litre

  • VAT percentage

  • calculation of the cost of the petrol net of duty and VAT



This case involves the use of a variety of techniques including


  • VLOOKUP()

  • Data Validation

  • IFERROR()

  • Paste Special Multiply



Here's an example of my output:

petrol_costs

 

This video summarises the case:

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Sleep Requirements.

In today's Borneo Bulletin newspaper there is an article on the sleep requirements of people of all ages. They give the requirements such as, a new born baby needs from 14 to 17 hours a day ... someone over 65 years of age needs from 7 to 8 hours sleep a day.

The task is to turn a photo of the data into a table and a chart that communicates as effectively as possible: I prepared the following:

sleep_graph

sleep_table

 

Please feel free to write to me at any time to ask for the spreadsheets that accompany these cases. At the moment they are live cases and I won't release them generally until the course has finished in a week's time..

Duncan Williamson

 

1.2.15

Wat Lan Kuat

Wat Lan Kuat, a temple near Sisaket in Thailand. Made of bottles. Take a look at these few snaps I took there today.

DW