Make Your Data Speak

Creating Actionable Data through Excel For Non-Technical Professionals

Alex Kolokolov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

255 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed.
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-8941-9 (ISBN)

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Gather and analyze data successfully, identify trends, and then create overarching strategies and actionable next steps - all through Excel. This book will show even those who lack a technical background how to make advanced interactive reports with only Excel at hand. Advanced visualization is available to everyone, and this step-by-step guide will show you how.

The information in this book is presented in an accessible and understandable way for everyone, regardless of the level of technical skills and proficiency in MS Excel. The dashboard development process is given in the format of step-by-step instructions, taking you through each step in detail. Universal checklists and recommendations of a practicing business analyst and trainer will help in solving various tasks when working with data visualization. Illustrations will help you perceive information easily and quickly.

Make Your Data Speak will show you howto master the main rules, techniques and tricks of professional data visualization in just a few days.

What You'll Learn

See how interactive dashboards can be useful for a business
Review basic rules for building dashboards
Understand why it's important to pay attention to colors and fonts when developing a dashboard
Create interactive management reports in Excel

Who This Book is For

Company executives and divisional managers, Middle managers, business analysts

Alex Kolokolov is an expert in the Business Intelligence systems implementation and the development of information panels for managers – dashboards. He is the CEO and founder of the Institute of Business Intelligence, a consulting company specializing in building corporate reporting systems. Author of the training "Make your Data Speak". Over 12 years of practice, Alex Kolokolov has set up hundreds of management reports in production, banks and trading companies, he‘s worked with software from Microsoft, Qlik, Tableau, IBM. Based on this experience he described universal rules for visualization and working with the requirements of business customers.

Chapter 1: Data preparation.- Chapter 2. Dashboard assembling.- Chapter 3. Anatomy of diagrams.- Chapter 4. Final Design.- Chapter 5. Corporate identity.- Chapter 6. Data visualization rules.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	332 Illustrations, color; 12 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 255 p. 344 illus., 332 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Berkley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
Schlagworte	Dashboard • Data • Data Analysis • data labels • KPI • Management • MS Excel • Presentations • Reports • visualizations
ISBN-10	1-4842-8941-2 / 1484289412
ISBN-13	978-1-4842-8941-9 / 9781484289419
Zustand	Neuware