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Tying a Bow Tie

Oz shows how to tie a bowtie and reminds gentlemen that clip-on and pre-tied bowties are unacceptable if you’re over 12 years old. Unfortunately, good self-tie bow ties are hard to find. Many of mine were custom made. The other were found on eBay.

Pivot Tables as a Diagnostic Tool

This is a companion to a blogpost for EmeryEvaluation.com the full blogpost can be found at: http://emeryevaluation.com/2013/03/18/ozdusoleil/ Here, we expand the use of pivot tables beyond data analysis. Today, we received a report and out first action was to drop it into a pivot table to investigate the data quality … which turned out not […]

CSV to clear merged cells in Excel

Someone recently had a huge challenge. He wanted to do analysis on a spreadsheet that was formatted for people to read. It wasn’t set up for data crunching. When we try to sort or add a pivot table we learn that there are merged cells all throughout the document. Save as CSV to destroy any […]

Keeping Crap Data Out Of Our Dataset: Demo of Excel Data Validation

This is a demonstration of what’s possible with Excel’s data validation. Too often spreadsheets have no layer of protection so, the doors are open wide for crap data to enter our datasets. We’ve got to stop being naughty and close those doors Here, I show 3 spreadsheets and demonstrate various protective methods: dependent dropdown lists, […]

Oz Reviews Sriracha Lays Potato Chips

Pleasantly surprising. As a lover of sriracha, I had to try these out if for no other reason than to say that “yes, I’ve tried them.” There’s some effort that’s been put in here. After a few chips, I have that warm tingle in my mouth. So, I’m not disappointed like I thought I would […]

Excel 2013: Slicers & Tables

UPDATE: Mac users have Slicers as of Excel 2016 New in Excel 2013, a wonderful analytical tool: using Slicers with Tables to analyze and/or filter data sets. Slicers could be used with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts, and Excel 2013 takes it a step further. EXCELLENT!