Analytics & AI for Modern Excel
I grew to loathe math in school, which culminated in me getting a "D" in one semester of algebra. So it seems nuts that I would have ended up in data analytics, right? It really shouldn't: …
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I'm a proud liberal arts graduate myself who, with some fumbling, ended up in the world of data analytics. …
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A poor craftsman blames his tools. But if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It's common for web developers or database adminstrators to refer to their "stack" of tools used to …
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The more I advance into analytics, the more I come back to Excel as a teaching and prototyping tool. Yes, of course, Excel has its weaknesses -- but as a medium for learning, it's unmatched. Here's …
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April 27th is National Tell a Story Day, where people are "encouraged to share all kinds of stories." So... how about a data story? What is a data story? We think of data as the cold, …
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I know very little about gambling. But these very literal "games of probability" make great examples for teaching statistics. The law of large …
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