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Excel - The Ultimate Halo 2 Accessory

Posted by Zonk on from the what's-your-ROI-with-the-shotgun? dept.

Lev13than writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that a Microsoft Employee has hacked up an Excel spreadsheet that performs 'advanced analysis' on a player's Halo 2 stats. The spreadsheet tracks statistics including average kills, deaths and ranking over time, and displays them with charts and graphs. There's even a decent UI to set up reports. Data is refreshed automatically via RSS feeds from Bungie.net. The file can be found here." Bungie's RSS tracking is something we've touched on before.

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  1. H2SA kicks ass by SeaEye420 · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those that don't want to spend $300(or whatever the going rate is for Excel2003, which is required) just to see some fancy stats, check out this Halo 2 Stats Aggregator. It's cross platform(actually, it's just a perl script) and it's GPL, so if you like some stats that aren't calculated yet you can just code them up yourself. And, you can probably submit patches to Matt so that we can all benefit from your beautiful work. :)

    Thanks Matt, H2SA rocks!

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    1. Re:H2SA kicks ass by rhpot1991 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Doesn't work in OOo, it more than likely uses VB code.

  2. My roommate made something similar by ClutchUGA · · Score: 2, Informative

    My roommate coded something similar using MS's C# Express beta. If you want to check it out go here:

    http://www.opedog.com/BungieNetStatsDisplay/

    The only downside is you need the .NET framework 2.0.

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  3. Re:wowsa! by DavidD_CA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wow. Please try crawling out from your rock and take a look at the last two versions of MS Office.

    Both 2002 and 2003 have been totally integrated on XML formats and supported it back and forth. Every program imports/exports to XML. Excel can pull data from XML documents like Access from an SQL server. Even FrontPage can edit XML data nativly.

    The new Infopath program uses XML as its native file format.

    Microsoft has done everything *but* refuse to adopt XML.

    MS also has supported RSS. Take a look at their website news articles (the Expert Zone, for example).

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