Great example of storytelling through data:

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End of the beginning by Benedict Evans.

Two great posts on DAU/MAU and Measuring Power Users

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Two great posts from Andrew Chen. Links below:

These posts were perfectly timed for me as we started thinking about Annual Planning for Alexa Voice Shopping org (Amazon) this week. As a part of my research of which metrics to use to measure things that our business cares most about and then setting the right benchmarks/goals for the org, the posts below were super helpful. So if you are in tech and if you care about 1) measuring frequency of usage 2) measuring the most engaged cohort then you should take some time to read these posts.

Power user curve 

DAU/MAU is an important metric to measure engagement, but here’s where it fails

Cheers!

Excel 2013: Display hidden rows columns and data on an Excel Chart

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If you hide rows, columns and data on excel, the chart that’s uses this data also hides it — while this is the default behavior, you can override this by following the steps below.

Let’s reproduce the behavior first.

I have a simple excel chart like shown below:

Excel Chart Hide Data 1Now, if I hide the data that is selected for this chart then the chart stops showing this as well:

Excel Chart Hide Data 2To fix this and if you want the cells (rows, columns and data) to be still hidden but still have the chart show up, then follow the steps:

  1. Select the chart
  2. Under Chart Tools > Design > Select Data Excel Chart Hide Data 3
  3. Click on Hidden and Empty Cells Excel Chart Hide Data 4
  4. Check the Show data in hidden rows and columns check-boxExcel Chart Hide Data 5
  5. Go back to excel and you should see the data on the chart now even though the data is hidden Excel Chart Hide Data 6

Hope that helps!