Simple Transformations Can Reveal Hidden Patterns in Your Data
Excel users have at least two significant advantages over business professionals who rely on other analytical and reporting tools.
First advantage: We Excel users can...
How to Calculate Inflation in Three Different Ways
Today, in the third quarter of 2021, the business press is churning out an avalanche of articles about the return of inflation. Although some...
A Lesson in Excel Analysis Learned from Rising US Inflation
Looking at the trends in the annual rate of change (ROC) of business and economic measures is an excellent way to reveal hidden information...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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