by Oz du Soleil | Dec 29, 2012 | Data Integrity, Data Management, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
Krampus torments a business owner who ran a business on crap data in 2012 high bounce rates on e-newsletters vital data sprinkled across multiple sources commission payments were wrong mail sent to out-of-state clients for local events unable to follow-up with major...
by Oz du Soleil | Sep 4, 2012 | Data Integrity, Data Management, Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Tidiness
What Are Pivot Tables Used For? What Are Pivot Tables Good For? Many of you have heard of Pivot Tables and aren’t sure what they are. I’ll leave you to Google how to mechanically get one working but if you’re like me, teaching the mechanics...
by Oz du Soleil | Jul 11, 2012 | Data Management, Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Tidiness, Tips
So, a client delivers a lot of data to me. They need it scrubbed or, reorganized or, an application built around their to automate tasks … or some combination of the three. Guess what? Most projects involve something that I don’t know how to do (yet). And...
by Oz du Soleil | Jul 3, 2012 | Data Integrity, Excel Geekdom, Guest Blogger, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness, Tips
This post will describe bad habits in Excel to do with cell formatting and formulas and how to avoid them. If you share spreadsheets in a team, the data will only be as strong as the weakest link in the team. For the first time ever, a Guest Blogpost on DataScopic.net...
by Oz du Soleil | Jun 18, 2012 | Case Studies, Data Integrity, Excel Geekdom, Screencast, Spreadsheet Tidiness, Tips
This project has a lot of pieces and resulted in something fun and challenging for me but also something quite valuable for the client. A key piece in the success was an Excel User form. Here’s a photo of me in actual battle with the Exceltopus that we roused...
by Oz du Soleil | Apr 30, 2012 | Excel Geekdom, Spreadsheet Tidiness, Tips
Have you written a complex formula or had to understand a long formula that someone else wrote? It can become a jungle of parentheses and commas. One simple tip: Use ALT+ENTER in the Formula Bar to Make Troubleshooting and Validation easier Here’s a...
