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Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785289545
Pages 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Getting Data into Excel Connecting to Databases How to Clean Texts, Numbers, and Dates Using Formulas to Prepare Your Data for Analysis Analyzing Your Data Using Descriptive Statistics and Charts Link Your Data Using Data Models A Primer on Using the Excel Solver Learning VBA – Excel's Scripting Language How to Build and Style Your Charts Creating Interactive Spreadsheets Using Tables and Slicers Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts Index

Summary


The sections in this chapter were designed to teach you how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database using Excel's data connection tools. You will be able to gather data from one or many tables in a database. We also covered how to leverage SQL and selectively pull just the data we are looking for into Excel. In the next chapter, we will get acquainted with the next stage of the data analysis life cycle, that is, preparing your data.

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