Author Archives: dougaj4

XY Chart problems – 1

Posted on 12/06/2020 by dougaj4

I have looked at problems with XY charts displaying as Line charts previously at: When is an XY chart not an XY chart …? and Plotting Charts With Gaps … The charts shown below. and also in the next post, can be … Continue reading →

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For Bert Jansch – Around the World in 80 Plays

Posted on 30/05/2020 by dougaj4

I have been listening to Pierre le Bras on YouTube for some time, where he plays under the name of Old Picker.  Today a link from there led me to For Bert Jansch , hosted by The Bert Jansch Foundation: Musicians … Continue reading →

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Building dances to an earthquake’s beat

Posted on 28/05/2020 by dougaj4

Adam Pascale from the Seismology Research Centre recently shared this animation (click on controls bottom right for High Quality and Full Screen views): … it’s from a building in the Philippines about 130km (hypocentral distance) from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake … Continue reading →

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More from Malinda …

Posted on 16/05/2020 by dougaj4

… and some of her mates, from here and there:

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New sort functions and sorting to groups

Posted on 16/05/2020 by dougaj4

I first posted a user defined function (UDF) to sort spreadsheet or VBA data back in 2009.  Finally Microsoft have caught up, and Excel 365 subscribers now have two built in sort functions available: =SORT(array,[sort_index],[sort_order],[by_col]) =SORTBY(array, by_array1, [sort_order1], [by_array2, sort_order2],…) … Continue reading →

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