Data Visualization with Excel Dashboards and Reports

Kusleika, Dick

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商品描述

Large corporations like IBM and Oracle are using Excel dashboards and reports as a Business Intelligence tool, and many other smaller businesses are looking to these tools in order to cut costs for budgetary reasons. An effective analyst not only has to have the technical skills to use Excel in a productive manner but must be able to synthesize data into a story, and then present that story in the most impactful way. Microsoft shows its recognition of this with Excel. In Excel, there is a major focus on business intelligence and visualization. Data Visualization with Excel Dashboards and Reports fills the gap between handling data and synthesizing data into meaningful reports. This title will show readers how to think about their data in ways other than columns and rows.

Most Excel books do a nice job discussing the individual functions and tools that can be used to create an "Excel Report". Titles on Excel charts, Excel pivot tables, and other books that focus on "Tips and Tricks" are useful in their own right; however they don't hit the mark for most data analysts. The primary reason these titles miss the mark is they are too focused on the mechanical aspects of building a chart, creating a pivot table, or other functionality. They don't offer these topics in the broader picture by showing how to present and report data in the most effective way.

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 data in the most meaningful way? How do you show impossible amounts of data without inundating your audience? In Data Visualization with Excel Reports and Dashboards, readers will get answers to all of these questions. Part technical manual, part analytical guidebook; this title will help Excel users go from reporting data with simple tables full of dull numbers, to creating hi-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 redundant reporting and analyses
  • Create impressive dashboards and What-If analyses
  • Understand the fundamentals of effective visualization
  • Visualize performance comparisons
  • Visualize changes and trends over time

商品描述(中文翻譯)

大型企業如IBM和Oracle正在使用Excel儀表板和報告作為商業智能工具,許多其他小型企業也出於預算原因而尋求這些工具以節省成本。一位有效的分析師不僅需要具備使用Excel的技術技能,還必須能夠將數據綜合成一個故事,並以最有影響力的方式呈現該故事。微軟通過Excel展示了對此的認識。在Excel中,業務智能和可視化是主要關注的重點。《使用Excel儀表板和報告進行數據可視化》填補了處理數據和將數據綜合成有意義的報告之間的差距。本書將向讀者展示如何以除了列和行之外的方式思考他們的數據。

大多數Excel書籍都很好地討論了可以用於創建“Excel報告”的個別功能和工具。關於Excel圖表、Excel樞紐表和其他專注於“技巧和訣竅”的書籍在其自身的範疇內是有用的;然而,它們對大多數數據分析師來說並不完全符合要求。這些書籍未能擊中要害的主要原因是它們過於關注建立圖表、創建樞紐表或其他功能的機械方面。它們沒有以更廣泛的視角呈現這些主題,即如何以最有效的方式呈現和報告數據。

如何以最有意義的方式展示趨勢?如何展示數據之間的關係?何時展示差異比展示實際數據值更有價值?如何處理異常值?如何以最有意義的方式對數據進行分類?如何在不使觀眾過度負擔的情況下展示大量數據?在《使用Excel報告和儀表板進行數據可視化》中,讀者將獲得對所有這些問題的答案。這本書既是技術手冊,又是分析指南;它將幫助Excel用戶從報告充滿乏味數字的簡單表格轉變為創建令人印象深刻的報告和儀表板,無論在視覺上還是實質上都能讓管理層驚艷。本書全面回顧了各種技術和分析概念,幫助用戶創建有意義的報告和儀表板。

閱讀本書後,讀者將能夠:
- 分析大量數據並以有意義的方式報告數據
- 從不同角度更好地了解數據
- 快速對數據進行各種視圖切片
- 自動化冗余報告和分析
- 創建令人印象深刻的儀表板和假設分析
- 理解有效可視化的基本原則
- 可視化性能比較
- 可視化隨時間變化的變化和趨勢