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.

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 ...

Previously, heat maps only displayed sum data. Moving forward, “you can use heat maps to represent other aggregation types, like average,” under the updated Layer Options tab, wrote the Excel ...

The course, to be held online on 30 July 2021, will provide a practical knowledge of some advanced functions, formatting and filters in Excel to allow participants to create dynamic heat maps.