Xbox and Power Map team up to analyze game data
In the spring of 2014, the Xbox team asked the Excel Power Map team to help them analyze data collected from the instrumentation of various games to improve performance and the gamers' experience. We got on a conference call with them; they showed us some of their data and some very basic graphs that they currently used...super challenging, ambiguous…perhaps, impossible. It was the kind of challenge that the Power Map team lives for. So, we went to work. Check out the video and read further to see how we accomplished this. After our first initial conversation we...concentrated in the same area. To do this, the Xbox team needed a way to import an image of the game world into Power Map and use the same coordinate system used in the game’s instrumentation. We got some data samples and some images that the Xbox team wanted to use as a Custom Map and got them to show us what was happening in the game...6 cool ways to use Custom Maps
Today’s post was written by James Marshall, a developer on the Excel Power Map team. If you haven’t noticed, Excel Power Map got a whole lot richer in September with the introduction of a new feature called Custom Maps. This feature allows you to create amazing... A coach could use Power Map to review a playback of an entire game, seeing where players are striving and where they need a little more coaching. This example of course does not only apply to basketball, many sports could benefit from this analysis...parameters and you simply want to visualize it. Just use a blank image of a chart axis for the background and Power Map will display your data on top. Custom Maps is a new feature in Power Map for Excel that was made available during the September update for customers...Students and teachers: You may be eligible to get Office for free!
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...sets quickly using SQL Server's in-memory database. Customers can customize the model as needed all within Excel - no extra coding needed. For visualizing and exploring data we're introducing Power View and Power Map, formerly project codename "GeoFlow." Using Power View...customers can manipulate data and compile it into charts, graphs and other visual means - great for presentations and reports. Power Map is a 3D data visualization tool for mapping, exploring and interacting with geographic and temporal data. Customers can visually plot up to one million rows of data in 3D on Bing Maps, view data in a geographic space...Ari Schorr and Seayoung Rhee are product marketing managers in the Microsoft Office Division focused on Excel and Business Intelligence, respectively. Power BI for Office 365 is a new self-service business intelligence (BI) offering enabling businesses to gain insights from their data in powerful new ways within Excel and Office...New ways to get the Excel business analytics features you need
...enable you to visualize your data in more compelling ways. Power Map, the popular 3D geospatial visualization tool, is now available to all Excel 2016 users and comes with a more intuitive name, “3D Maps.” Easy access to data, using the Power Query functionality—We have integrated the Power Query add-in to be out...functionality. Giving analytics power to all Excel users No matter what Office plan you decide to purchase, you can leverage Excel’s powerful data analysis tools to help you discover, organize and analyze the data around you and find the business insights that matter. Rich chart types and easy formatting, a library of powerful functions...and fast and flexible PivotTable capabilities are just a few of the core capabilities in every box of Excel 2016. The following are a few of the new features made available in Excel 2016: Rich charts and visualizations—The powerful new charts, like Treemap and Histogram...
3 ways technology can help rebuild your frontline workforce
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