Learning Excel By Building

Learning Excel By Building

Every day someone new is thrown into a data-driven/Excel situation and they don’t know where to start. So, they flail, panic, curse, pray and beg, and either figure it out or they don’t figure it out. I wondered, “what might a better...
Beyond BI Tools: The Real Life Impact

Beyond BI Tools: The Real Life Impact

One night I was up late, thinking about Excel, data and the many conversations around the different tools that we use to get our data to tell us something useful. But I was reminded of many years ago and why I have remained so passionate about data: it’s the...
More Excel Videos in 2016

More Excel Videos in 2016

As we move forward in 2016 you will see a lot more video from me and fewer long-form blogposts.  As 2015 closed there was a stretch where I’d uploaded 5 videos over 2 weeks. That level of production has never happened over the 5-ish years of this blog. One thing...
Beware the Octopus Spreadsheet

Beware the Octopus Spreadsheet

So many spreadsheets require basic math, but poor layout makes a spreadsheet unnecessarily complicated and brittle. They don’t need sophisticated dashboards, forecasts, statistical analysis, or connections to a database. They just need to perform basic tasks...