Mike (Mr. DataPig) Alexander is having a contest – Create a Dashboard in Five Minutes. I procrastinated and slipped in just under the deadline – Sunday evening after finishing my chores I figured out how to use Screencast-O-Matic for more than just animated gifs. I turned on my mic, took the black tape off my camera and recorded a five-minute screenshot. It took about thirty takes (as I mentioned to Mike I now have even greater respect for Orson Welles and Aaron Sorkin). I came away with a video that starts with some unnormalized baseball stats and ends up with two pivots and a slicer. Along the way I showcase a few of my own tools, some of which I’ve blogged about. It was fun, I love learning new things fast.
There’s just one problem, dear reader. So far my video only has two measly votes, despite Mike calling me “stately” and saying that this very blog is one of his favorites (and despite voting for myself):
Now, you know I don’t ask you for much. So, if you’ve ever said to yourself, I don’t know, anything nice about this blog, or MenuRighter, or are just feeling randomly generous, click the link below, follow it to YouTube and vote for me, yoursumbuddy.
After that you should watch some of the other videos.
Now why the hell would I want you to spend more time playing Xbox, and less time writing helpful blog posts? Huh? Huh?
Hi Jeff, How about if I promise to do it off-the-clock?
Who is this Doug Clancy that Mike keeps mentioning?
Are you trying to capture the Irish vote?
Hi Debra,
Things are going so well I hired an alter-ego to pick up some of the slack, but I can only afford one vowel.
I sometimes tell people my name is like “Clancy with a G”. Doesn’t always work though – they end up calling me “Clangy”.
Funny…I often tell people my surname is Weird without the ‘d’. But after I tell them, oftentimes they don’t remove it.
Hi Jeff,
First time accessing your blog and was wondering how did you get the option to use the Data Normalizer option. is this part of an Addin? When you did right click the top option being MyBar.
Hi Chuck,
The data normalization code is in my Data Normalizer post. I did turn it into a tool, but never published the tool.
BTW, my name is Doug, although Jeff has spent a lot of time here too!