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Stephen L. Nelson is an author and CPA who provides accounting, business advisory, tax planning, and tax preparation services to small businesses. He is the author of more than 100 books, including

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Data Analysis

2nd Edition

by Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA and E. C. Nelson Excel

Data Analysis For Dummies,

2nd Edition

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction ................................................................1

Part I

Where's the Beef?

Chapter 1

Introducing Excel Tables ........................................................................ .......9

Chapter 2

Grabbing Data from External Sources

Chapter 3

Scrub-a-Dub-Dub: Cleaning Data

Part II

PivotTables and PivotCharts ............................79

Chapter 4

Working with PivotTables ........................................................................ ...81

Chapter 5

Building PivotTable Formulas

Chapter 6

Working with PivotCharts

.127

Chapter 7

Customizing PivotCharts

...141

Part III

Advanced Tools ...........................................155

Chapter 8

Using the Database Functions ...................................................................157

Chapter 9

Using the Statistics Functions

Chapter 10

Descriptive Statistics........................................................................ ........225

Chapter 11

Inferential Statistics

..........245

Chapter 12

Optimization Modeling with Solver

Part IV

The Part of Tens ..........................................287

Chapter 13

Ten Things You Ought to Know about Statistics .................................289

Chapter 14

Almost Ten Tips for Presenting Table

Results and Analyzing Data

................301

Chapter 15

Ten Tips for Visually Analyzing and Presenting Data ..........................307

Appendix

Glossary of Data Analysis

andExcel Terms Index

Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................1 About This Book ........................................................................ ......................1

What You Can Safely Ignore

...1 What You Shouldn"t Ignore (Unless You"re a Masochist) ..........................2

Foolish Assumptions

...............3

How This Book Is Organized

..3

Part I: Where"s theBeef?

Part II: PivotTables and PivotCharts

Part III: Advanced Tools

3

Part IV: The Part ofTens

Icons Used inThis Book

.........4

Beyond theBook

.....................5

Where toGo fromHere

...........5

Part I

Where's the Beef? ..............................................7

Chapter 1

Introducing Excel Tables .............................9 What Is a Table and Why Do I Care? .............................................................9

Building Tables

......................12

Exporting froma database

Building a table thehard way.............................................................12

Building a table thesemi-hard way

Analyzing Table Information

16

Simple statistics

...........16

Sorting table records

...18

Using AutoFilter ona table

Undoing a filter

.............23

Turning offfilter

...........23

Using thecustom AutoFilter

Filtering a filtered table

Using advanced filtering

Chapter 2

Grabbing Data from External Sources .................31 Getting Data theExport-Import Way ...........................................................31

Exporting: The first step

Importing: The second step (if necessary)

Querying External Databases and Web Page Tables

................................44

Running a web query

...45

Importing a database table

Querying anexternal database

It"s Sometimes a Raw Deal

....55

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Chapter 3

Scrub-a-Dub-Dub: Cleaning Data .....................57 Editing Your Imported Workbook ...............................................................57

Delete unnecessary columns

Delete unnecessary rows

Resize columns........................................................................ .............58

Resize rows

...................60

Erase unneeded cell contents

Format numeric values

Copying worksheet data

Moving worksheet data

Replacing data infields

Cleaning Data withText Functions

What"s thebig deal, Steve?

The answer tosome ofyour problems

The CLEAN function

....65

The CONCATENATE function

The EXACT function

....66

The FIND function

........67

The FIXED function

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