by Chris Roast | Jul 16, 2021 | Data Analysis, News & Insights
Data visualisation is one of those fantastic ideas where data is presented in a format that allows us to see what is going on. From a good visualisation we can drawn conclusions about a data set easily. We can interpret the numbers with the effort of doing any number...
by Chris Roast | Jun 30, 2021 | Data Analysis, Personal
Visualisations are brilliant at summarising important information so we can quickly see what’s going on. Here is an informative visualisation for world refugee day. Some surprises when compared with how the movement of people is often reported. Consider the...
by Chris Roast | Jun 22, 2021 | Data Analysis, Excel, Mathematics, News & Insights, Teaching
For a short period we are enabling free access to EQUS Expert. This is so you can experience the full functionality of EQUS and put it through its paces. We welcome your feedback on it. EQUS provides an easy to use means of showing how Excel computations are...
by Chris Roast | Sep 2, 2020 | Data Analysis, Excel, Teaching, Tips
Strings and things Think spreadsheets and you normally think numbers. However they are good at many processing tasks including text processing. Here we use a simple example from by Sumit Bansal in trumpexcel.com, extracting the first word from a cell. The article...
by Chris Roast | Aug 14, 2020 | Data Analysis, Excel, Tips
Looking up and extracting data from tables of numbers and strings is one of those things that most serious data analysts need to do on a regular basis. If you’re familiar with Excel, you may have come across VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP and more recently XLOOKUP. Each of...
by Chris Roast | Aug 14, 2020 | Data Analysis, Excel, Mathematics, Tips
@msexcel regularly remind the Excel community of some of the useful functions and formula that help with finance, business analysis, data analysis and all the other jobs that Excel gets used for. Here we’ve a few illustrations inspired by @msexcel. One or the...
