Going back to the theme of ‘doing complicated things in one line of code’, here’s a mash up of cDataSet, Color Ramps, Mapping and various other things.
Lets say we want to create a thematic map in Excel from a simple set of data, in this example, the population of each country in the world, and apply a heatmap coloring. (I would like to credit the clearly and simply blog for the map and idea)
Here’s the result
and here’s the code
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Public Sub makeWorldMap() Dim ds As New cDataSet ds _ .populateData(wholeSheet("countryList"), , , , , , True) _ .shapeRamp "World Map", "population", "shape", "country name", "S_unknown", , "slowRamp", , False, True End Sub |
Now since this map is just a bunch of named shapes, we can apply the same principle to any set of shapes. Here’s a Santa with bits of his face heatmapped according to the data shown.
and here’s the code
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Public Sub makeSanta() Dim ds As New cDataSet ds _ .populateData(wholeSheet("santa"), , , , , , True) _ .shapeRamp "santa" End Sub |
For more stuff like this and to download this example, see the ramblings site
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