by Oz du Soleil | Jan 8, 2014 | Data Management, Excel Geekdom
Part 1: The Introduction Part 2: Bill Jelen & Hiran de Silva Part 3: Craig Hatmaker & Rob Collie 1 Part 4: Craig Hatmaker & Rob Collie 2 Part 5: Jordan Goldmeier & Carl Arriaza Part 6: Szilvia Juhasz & Closing Comments Yesterday, I introduced a...
by Oz du Soleil | Jan 7, 2014 | Data Management, Excel Geekdom
Part 1: The Introduction Part 2: Bill Jelen & Hiran de Silva Part 3: Craig Hatmaker & Rob Collie 1 Part 4: Craig Hatmaker & Rob Collie 2 Part 5: Jordan Goldmeier & Carl Arriaza Part 6: Szilvia Juhasz & Closing Comments The next few blogposts will...
by Oz du Soleil | Jan 1, 2014 | Excel Geekdom
Through Chris Penn and Susan Murphy I discovered this exercise in 2013 and it was pretty darned effective. Rather than a new year’s resolution, pick 3 words that will trigger actions or remind you to avoid certain things. Chris Brogan started this several years...
by Oz du Soleil | Dec 5, 2013 | Case Studies, Excel Geekdom
Master Dawn Sardiñas, a friend, New Yorker, and co-founder of Gotham Martial Arts came through Chicago recently and we sat on the riverwalk at Whole Foods and chatted about all manner of things. Most interesting was what we notice as teachers: Students bring real life...
by Oz du Soleil | Dec 2, 2013 | Data Integrity, Data Management, Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
October 2012, I posted a mild complaint about the ability to build a calculator in Excel and then publish online via ExcelWebApp. The Excel piece was easy. The WebApp piece was disappointing but was infinitely better than Google’s version. Yesterday a friend...
by Oz du Soleil | Oct 29, 2013 | Data Management, Excel Geekdom
This article at PowerPivotPro, Are We Data Scientists In Hiding? Or, Are We Formuleers? inspired me to finish this blogpost I started several weeks ago. At PowerPivotPro, Rob Collie asks what we should call ourselves other than “Excel Professionals”?...