Analytics & AI for Modern Excel
Somewhere in the middle of a discovery call, it is easy to feel yourself shrink. The client starts describing a real problem: their analysts are drowning in manual work, the monthly close takes too …
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The hardest part of running a data training session is rarely the material, pacing, or expectation setting. It is often the first ten minutes, when a room full of people open their laptops and …
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When I started Stringfest Analytics, I assumed the hard part would be the work itself: building training that lands, keeping current with Excel and Python, and figuring out how to explain tools like …
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There is a steady drumbeat right now of predictions that AI is about to wipe out huge swaths of knowledge work. Entire finance and operations teams cleared out; analysts, FP&A managers, …
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It's getting harder to keep things current as a trainer and course builder. Not long ago, you could release a course and expect it to hold up for a while. Now you can publish something and see a major …
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As an Excel trainer, I regularly encounter a particular type of question that shows up in almost every tool-focused session. It usually takes the form of: “Why don’t we just use [another tool] …
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