Create a Geo Map Chart - Google Sheets

If you've got data to map, you might want to using the geo chart maps in Google Sheets. As long as you have some type of value that can be mapped like city, state or country, you can assign colors or markers to your data on a geographic map. All you need are two columns; one for the locale and the other to represent some quantitative value. The catch is that there are just to geo map options to use in Google sheets. Also you can't map latitude and longitude. However there is a workaround to that which involves some script (don't worry it's a copy/paste) and later on I'll even so you how to incorporate google sheet data with the google maps application.

Use the Excel XLOOKUP Function

The XLOOKUP function is an Office 365 function that is sure to replace the other lookup functions like VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, or HLOOKUP. It's so much more versatile and take the similar argument structure as the other functions and more. You can do various lookup variations like looking up to the left or looking up values from a bottoms up approach...and all this with just one function.

Google Sheets - Track Stocks with GOOGLEFINANCE

If you like to track your stock investments, Google Sheets has a function called GOOGLEFINANCE that helps you get delayed (~20 minute) stock price (or volume) information on numerous stocks in your portfolio. It can event track mutual funds and currency. You also have the option of getting historical information on those various stocks so you can do some anaylsis or comparisons of your portfolio. In this video I'll show you how to use the many ways of GOOGLEFINANCE to get this information and even show you how to create a small in cell chart to visualize the stock prices from 30 days or even 365 days to the current date.