Analyzing Business Data with Excel

Forecasting, Statistics, and Data Management

Gerald Knight - Collection Windows Applications/Excel

248 pages, parution le 30/01/2006

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Résumé

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility, and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a standard spreadsheet.

Analyzing Business Data with Excel shows you how to solve real-world business problems by taking Excel's data analysis features to the max. Rather than focusing on individual Excel functions and features, the book keys directly on the needs of business users. Most of the chapters start with a business problem or question, and then show you how to create pointed spreadsheets that address common data analysis issues.

Aimed primarily at experienced Excel users, the book doesn't spend much time on the basics. After introducing some necessary general tools, it quickly moves into more specific problem areas, such as the following:

Statistics
Pivot tables
Workload forecasting
Modeling
Measuring quality
Monitoring complex systems
Queuing
Optimizing
Importing data

If you feel as though you're getting shortchanged by your overall application of Excel, Analyzing Business Data with Excel is just the antidote. It addresses the growing Excel data analysis market head on. Accountants, managers, analysts, engineers, and supervisors-one and all-will learn how to turn Excel functionality into actual solutions for the business problems that confront them.

L'auteur - Gerald Knight

Gerald Knight has nearly 30 years experience in the computer industry as a developer, teacher, and consultant. During an over twenty-year career at FedEx, he was a project leader and system architect working on imaging and revenue control systems. He has specialized in Excel development for the last ten years. Now retired, he consults and occasionally writes in Memphis, Tennessee.

Sommaire

Preface
Excel and Statistics
Pivot Tables and Problem Solving
Workload Forecasting
Modeling
Measuring Quality
Monitoring Complex Systems
Queuing
Custom Queuing Presentation
Optimizing
Importing Data
The Trouble with Data
Effective Display Techniques
Index

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Gerald Knight
Collection	Windows Applications/Excel
Parution	30/01/2006
Nb. de pages	248
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	274g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596100735
ISBN13	978-0-596-10073-5