by Oz du Soleil | Jan 20, 2015 | Data Management
Last year I wrote a blogpost describing Excel as the Dennis Rodman of business intelligence tools. In the blogpost I described events where data management and data scientists got together, and Excel skill was welcomed in a very odd way. Like the NBA player, Hall of...
by Oz du Soleil | Aug 5, 2013 | Excel Geekdom
The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) The whole world had one language and common speech. As people migrated eastward, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and mortar to build a city with a tower that reaches into the heavens, to make a...
by Oz du Soleil | Apr 1, 2013 | Data Management
LEARN TO LOVE YOUR DATA DUMPS I am hearing more and more that people don’t know what’s in their data, what to ask of their data, especially “how do I get at what I do know I’m looking for?” Here’s a story: THE INFORMATION IS...
by Oz du Soleil | Jan 25, 2013 | Data Integrity, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
In preparation for teaching a workshop on Excel Dashboards & Reports, I’m thinking about what needs to be covered. Several months ago, Mynda Treacy of My Online Training Hub provided an excellent guest post on Excel reporting. (Going forward, I use...