Skip to Content
Excel Dashboards and Reports For Dummies, 2nd Edition
book

Excel Dashboards and Reports For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Michael Alexander
March 2014
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
7h 10m
English
For Dummies

Overview

Create dynamic dashboards and put your data on display with For Dummies

No matter what business you're in, reports have become a staple of the workplace, but what good is a report if no reads it, or even worse, understands it? This all new edition of Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies is here to help you make meaning of all your data and turn it into clear and actionable visualizations. Fully updated for the latest business intelligence and spreadsheet tools in Excel 2013, this book shows you how to analyze large amounts of data, quickly slice data into various views on the fly, automate redundant reporting, create eye-catching visualizations, and more.

  • Helps you move beyond reporting data with simple tables, rows, and columns to designing high-impact reports, dashboards, and visuals

  • Walks you through a wide array of technical and analytical concepts to give you the background you need to select the right tool for interpreting and displaying data

  • Covers how to build a chart, work with pivot tables, group and bucket your data, represent trends, create What-If analyses, and increase the value of your reports

  • Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the business analysis tool you need to transform your raw data into a powerful and effective presentation that is accessible to everyone.

    Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
    and much more.

    Read now

    Unlock full access

    More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

    AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

    QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
    Julian F.
    Head of Cybersecurity
    QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
    Addison B.
    Field Engineer
    QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
    Amir M.
    Data Platform Tech Lead
    QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
    Mark W.
    Embedded Software Engineer

    You might also like

    Excel Dashboards and Reports for Dummies, 3rd Edition

    Excel Dashboards and Reports for Dummies, 3rd Edition

    Michael Alexander
    Excel Dashboards and Reports, 2nd Edition

    Excel Dashboards and Reports, 2nd Edition

    Michael Alexander, John Walkenbach

    Publisher Resources

    ISBN: 9781118842423Purchase book