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.

For those who might not be familiar with the Excel 3D maps feature, it plots spreadsheet data on a map. I found that I was able to plot the vehicle's ground track pretty easily, as shown in Figure 1.

Microsoft has released a public preview of GeoFlow today, a new 3D visualization tool for Excel which allow users to create, navigate and interact with time-sensitive data applied to a digital map ...

Creating effective data visualization such as a heat map need not require special software – just Microsoft Excel. The techniques shown in the upcoming Wits Mining Institute (WMI) course – Geospatial ...

Maps are coming by the end of 2016 in Excel for Windows desktops, Windows Mobile and Android, for Office 365 subscribers. Tap for Word and Outlook A new feature in Word and Outlook called “Tap ...

Creating effective data visualization such as a heat map need not require special software – just Microsoft Excel. The techniques shown in the upcoming Wits Mining Institute (WMI) course ...