PowerPivot is an no-charge add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010. PowerPivot brings "self-service business intelligence to your desktop". With the vast volumes of data available to the information professional, having tools to help discover patterns and generate insights is very important to the analyst. Especially important is for these tools to permit the information professional to go in the direction that those insights lead.
Topic Categories: Excel, Data Analytics
Written by
John H. Heinrichs
Focused on enhancing student skills in the application of inbound information technology (IIT) to help organizations gain competitive advantage.
As the Information Systems Management (ISM) department focuses on educating “students for careers within the information profession,” an important learning outcome is to “utilize the most relevant information technologies”. One of the information technologies available for visualizing and understanding data is data mining. Coupling this information technology with the Inbound Information Technology techniques enables ISM to better understand their prospective students. Using data mining technology enables ISM inbound marketers to answer questions such as:
Topic Categories: Excel, Inbound Information Technology, Data Mining
Written by
John H. Heinrichs
Focused on enhancing student skills in the application of inbound information technology (IIT) to help organizations gain competitive advantage.
Several years ago, a friend of mine tried to convince me to use Twitter by claiming that the service was mostly populated by comedians sharing jokes and trying to “one-up” one another. As a listener to a number of comedy podcasts and having recently attended Gilda’s LaughFest in Grand Rapids, Michigan last March, I thought I’d use Twitter Analytics to examine how comedians use Twitter and what Twitter Analytics can tell us about why they use do so.
Topic Categories: social media, Twitter, Analytics for Twitter, Excel, PowerPivot
If you are interested in being a contributor to the BizBlog, please fill out the form and I will get back to you real soon!!
×
