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Excel 2007 Dashboards Reports For Dummies Fills The Gap Between Handling Data And Synthesizing Data Into Meaningful Reports.


DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland
Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River.
, Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles.  -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85281) has announced the addition of "Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials.  2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies" to their offering.

This title shows readers how to think about their data in ways other than columns and rows.

What are the most meaningful ways to show trending? How do you show relationships in data? When is showing variances more valuable than showing actual data values? How do you deal with outliers? How do you bucket A reserved amount of memory that holds a single item or multiple items of data. Bucket is somewhat synonymous to "buffer," although buffers are usually memory locations for incoming data records, while buckets tend to be smaller holding areas for calculations. See hash table, buffer and variable.  data in the most meaningful way. How do you show impossible amounts of data without inundating your audience? In Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies, readers get answers to all these questions.

Part technical manual, part analytical analytical, analytic

pertaining to or emanating from analysis.


analytical control
control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test.
 guidebook; this title will help Excel users go from reporting data with simple tables full of dull numbers, to creating high-impact reports and dashboards that will wow management both visually and substantively. This book offers a comprehensive review of a wide array of technical and analytical concepts that will help users create meaningful reports and dashboards.

After reading this book, the reader will be able to:

- Analyze large amounts of data and report their data in a meaningful way

- Get better visibility into data from different perspectives

- Quickly slice data into various views on the fly

- Automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation.  redundant reporting and analyses

- Create eye-catching visualizations

- Create impressive dashboards and What-If analyses

Contents:

Introduction.

I: Making the Move to Dashboards.

Chapter 1: Getting in the Dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard.

(2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard.
 State of Mind.

Chapter 2: Building a Super Model.

Part II: Building Basic Dashboard Components.

Chapter 3: The Pivotal Pivot Table See multidimensional views. .

Chapter 4: Excel Charts for the Uninitiated un·in·i·ti·at·ed  
adj.
Not knowledgeable or skilled; inexperienced.

n.
An uninformed, unskilled, or inexperienced person or group of people.
.

Chapter 5: The New World of Conditional Formatting.

Chapter 6: The Art of Dynamic Labeling.

Part III: Building Advanced Dashboard Components.

Chapter 7: Components That Show Trending.

Chapter 8: Components That Group and Bucket Data.

Chapter 9: Components That Display Performance against a Target.

Part IV: Advanced Reporting Techniques.

Chapter 10: Macro-Charged Reporting.

Chapter 11: Giving Users an Interactive Interface.

Part V: Working with the Outside World.

Chapter 12: Using External Data for Your Dashboards and Reports.

Chapter 13: Sharing Your Work with the Outside World.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 14: Ten Chart Design Principles.

Chapter 15: Ten Questions to Ask Before Distributing Your Dashboard.

Index.

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