When you dive into Excel, you quickly realize the power it holds for data analysis and prediction. Two of the most potent tools at your disposal are the TREND and FORECAST functions. These functions ...

Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

Creating a monthly budgeting and forecasting model in Excel is a crucial skill for effective financial planning and management. This step-by-step guide by Kenji will walk you through the process of ...

When I worked as a data processor, my coworkers were always impressed by how quickly I could get my Excel work done. Many ...

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Microsoft Excel is a digital Swiss Army Knife for data analysts. While basic functions serve as the foundation, you need to explore advanced ones to unlock Excel’s sophisticated capabilities. By ...

With trendlines, Excel can project future figures based on previous history. Mary Ann Richardson points the way. Let’s say you are keeping track of monthly sales figures for the past six months ...

Businesses often use Excel, a Microsoft spreadsheet application often installed by default as part of the Microsoft Office suite on business computers. Excel workbooks contain individual worksheets, ...

It’s not for big data, but you can use Microsoft Excel to learn a lot more about analytics than you may realize. For many office workers, Microsoft Excel is simply the go-to spreadsheet application.

Excel remains a cornerstone for data analysis, reporting, and business planning, but it’s not quite user-friendly. It can take months to learn advanced Excel skills on your own. If you want a simpler ...

One can’t read any news today without a barrage of articles about data science and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Just recently, Jeff Bezos opened up his private MARS (Machine Learning, ...