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Using Excel for Data Analysis

Microsoft Excel's capabilities for analyzing data are limited only by your creativity.

William Dorner
Wed, 10/01/1997 - 08:56
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Professional statisticians typically have powerful software at their disposal to perform advanced analyses and create slick graphs. But many professionals in the quality field don't enjoy that luxury. Faced with a limited budget, they must be resourceful with the software they already have. Besides, not everyone needs the capability to perform nonlinear regression with custom loss functions for maximum likelihood! Fortunately, many occasional data analysts already own a versatile software capable of providing most basic quality analyses -- Microsoft Excel.

Skeptical? I don't blame you. The following examples show how to apply Excel for the graphical analysis of quality data. The examples range from somewhat obvious to downright clever. As it turns out, Excel's capabilities are limited only by your creativity.

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Submitted by lacheynick9 on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 22:58

Great!

Perfect post. Here’s a tool that lets youbuild all types of online reporting with graphs and charts for sales, marketing, finance, HR, support, etc.  http://blog.caspio.com/web_apps/how-to-add-dynamic-data-charts-and-grap…

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