I can’t er… remember where I saw this method originally. It might have been on Memory-Sports.com, but I couldn’t find it when I just did a quick search.
That’s something that Harry Lorayne covers in The Memory Book under the section about memory maps. And, I think this would probably work, but I’d recommend that the OP add an additional row and columb so that B1 be the category for the first column and A2 represent the date for which the figure applies.
It’s been a while since I looked at anything like this, but I forget whether or not you need both of those bits of information.