Indeed, you can use Excel to create heat maps for pretty much anything, from displaying your sports team's on-field strengths to showing how climate change is impacting temperatures over time.

Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.

How to Create a Product-Positioning Map in Excel. Understanding where your product fits within the market is critical to its success. One simple, effective tool that marketers use is a product ...

This Feature in Microsoft Excel Is the Best One They’ve Added in Years It’s like hiring a data scientist or Karl Rove, minus the political slant.