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 ...

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.