PROJECT OVERVIEW PINGER EXECUTIVE PLOTS AKBAR MEHDI

Sequence 1. TASKS GIVEN 2. OVERVIEW OF TOOLS USED Pivot Tables VBA 3. CURRENT TASK PROGRESS

TASKS The aim is to provide high level plots of data generated by PingER to executives. These plots are to be designed using tools in MS Excel such as –VBA(Visual Basic for Applications) –Pivot tables –Macros Plots should provide a more management oriented view of the data generated by PingER.

OVERVIEW OF TOOLS USED

Pivot Tables

Pivot tables quickly summarize and analyze large amounts of data in lists and tables. Independent of the original data layout, a summary is created by dragging, dropping columns to different rows, columns, or summary positions. As an example –Lets say we have a huge database of census data in Excel with various data fields. –Obviously it would be difficult to analyze such a large amount of data and even graphing would not be feasible. –We can create a pivot table summary using this raw census data. –With the drag of a mouse, you can easily rearrange the pivot table so that it summarizes the data based on gender or age groupings or geographic location.

Pivot Tables

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)

VBA is "Visual Basic for Application". It is a programming language that allows users to program macros to accomplish complex tasks within an application. –Such Applications include MS Word, MS Excel and MS Access. VBA for Excel is powerful programming language with which you can develop within Excel, real programs that will accomplish in a few minutes very complex tasks.

VBA Features VBA code uses five types of components: –Objects They are the building blocks of Excel projects. They are the application (Excel), the workbooks, the worksheets, the cells and the ranges, the charts, the drawings, the controls (command buttons, text boxes, list boxes, etc.). –Properties All objects have properties that you can set and modify. For example the font can be bold, the sheet can be visible or not, a cell can have a formula –Procedures Allow the programmer to write code in the form of modules to be called as macros.

VBA Features (contd.) Functions –These include Excel functions such as SUM( ), COUNTIF( ) VBA functions such as UCASE, LCASE, NOW() –Can be called from VBA procedures. Statements –IF..THEN, DO...LOOP, FOR...NEXT, WITH...END WITH, EXIT FOR, EXIT DO, EXIT SUB

VBA Editor

Current Task Progress

Tasks Completed I have completed an excel based application which: –Automatically reads data from text file into Excel sheet –Generates Pivot Tables of the Data –Creates graphs of the pivot tables. The data for the text file is obtained from: – wrap/pingtable.pl

Pivot Table

Graph Generated

Current Tasks Generating Pivot Tables and graphs for data on the following page: – iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/prmout iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/prmouthttp://www- iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/prmout Improving the created pivot tables and graphs to make them more dynamic

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