Leverage: fully exploiting Microsoft Office®, SAS®, SPSS® and other power-tools ...
Human beings, as a lot, are very creative. We “find a way to do it,” even if it's not the best or most-efficient way. Although we have the use of the most-powerful business machine ever invented, we fail to scratch the surface of its potential. We work with large and complex data-sets “by hand.” But it doesn't have to be this way ...
Leveraging Microsoft Office®:
- Leveraging Microsoft Access® and Microsoft Excel®
- Microsoft Access is the “other” program in the Office suite. Most (but not all) distributions include it, yet those that do might not automatically install it. But, if you're hammering away at large Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets, or trying to relate one spreadsheet to another, you're missing something important. Access can greatly enhance what you can do within Excel, without leaving Excel and without “importing and exporting” anything! Here's how...
- Objects: The “Magic Glue” of Windows®
- The Microsoft technologies known variously as OLE™, COM™, DCOM™, ActiveX™ and even “dot-NET™” are the magic-glue of the Microsoft Windows® environments. This high-level overview introduces how these technologies work and how they usefully fit together, whether you're a programmer or not. Read more...
Statistics and Business Intelligence:
- Business Intelligence ... On The Cheap
- Statistics are the bread-and-butter of any Business Intelligence (BI) research, but valuable information is not far from Mark Twain's “lies and damned lies,” and just around-the-corner from “useless.” But with the right approach, and the right tools, you can get priceless business insights on a shoestring budget. Read more...