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Excel Was NOT ‘Originally Designed as a Personal Productivity Tool’

by Charley Kyd on October 21, 2009

If you read the business press or Business Intelligence (BI) forums, or if you listen to most IT managers, you’ll soon hear that “Excel was originally designed as a personal productivity tool.”

Well, it ain’t true!

I know this “fact” isn’t true for three reasons. [click to continue...]

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Excel charts, seasonality, & analysis: Five lessons from the WSJ

by Charley Kyd on September 23, 2009

In my tiny town on the Washington coast, I don’t get the Wall Street Journal until it arrives in our mail box about noon most weekdays. So at breakfast this morning I read an article in yesterday’s Journal, which offers some great advice for Excel users in business.

Don’t get me wrong. The article, New Light on the Plight of Winter Babies, didn’t discuss Excel at all. Instead, it discussed some fascinating data. [click to continue...]

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Excel’s Advantages for Predictive Analytics

by Charley Kyd on September 7, 2009

Predictive Analytics is one of 4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence, according to a recent article in Information Week.

“Predictive analytics,” the article said, “is a white-hot growth segment that got hotter with IBM’s $1.2 billion deal to buy SPSS, a company that uses algorithms and combinations of calculations to spot trends, risks, and opportunities in ways not possible with historical reporting.” [click to continue...]

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