Teaching analytics with modern Excel
The first personal spreadsheet computer application was released in 1979. Its name, "VisiCalc," was short for "visual calculator." I like to bring this up when explaining the benefits of using …
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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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I've been a dilettante in eBay sales since college and, wanting to add a little more rigor to what I sell and how to price it, looked to the spreadsheet for guidance. If you've ever sold online …
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A topic of interest to me as a liberal arts grad is the similarity between good writing and good data work.Mark Twain famously said, "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long …
The 19th Century economist's famous steps on building and communicating economic models. One of my all-time favorite quotes. …
