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Published inApr 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804610695
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Steven Sanderson
Steven Sanderson
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Steven Sanderson

Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun
David Kun
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David Kun

David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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Embedding visualizations in Excel reports offers a practical way to enhance data presentation, customization, and automation. Whether you’re working with sales data, financial reports, or any other dataset, this approach empowers you to create insightful reports that convey your data-driven insights effectively.

In this chapter, you learned about data visualization techniques in general, the ways to extend your Excel workflows and reports with those techniques, and how to implement them in R and Python.

We have covered the most popular and powerful R packages and Python libraries in detail. You learned about the typical plots used to carry out your analysis and how to communicate your findings, along with use cases and examples where those data visualizations can be used.

The next time you prepare an Excel report, you will be in a position to dazzle your audience with the most beautiful and insightful visualizations they have ever seen!

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804610695

Authors (2)

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Steven Sanderson

Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun

David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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