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:
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:
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
