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Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013

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Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Creating Interactive Spreadsheets Using Tables and Slicers
Index

Summary


This chapter is one of my favorites because it brings so many concepts from the previous chapters together and shows you how everything fits together with the help of a simple example. We had to gather data, prepare data, and analyze data. Hopefully, you are beginning to see that analyzing data means that you need to ask lots and lots of questions. You also need to remember that domain knowledge is very important. You need to know the background of the data you are working with and how it fits into the bigger picture. You also realized that having a good eye for bad data is a skill that you need to tune over time. We also made use of pivot tables and charts to get more insights into our data. We also covered the steps needed to automatically generate descriptive statistics about our data in detail. These statistics helped us look deeper into our data and get a better feel of what we are working with. By the end of the chapter, you need to know your data inside and out. In Chapter...