November 2013
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
10h 39m
English
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Contents
1 Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Spreadsheets but Were Too Afraid to Ask
Moving Quickly with the Control Button
Copying Formulas and Data Quickly
Locating the Find and Replace Menus
Formulas for Locating and Pulling Values
OpenSolver: I Wish We Didn't Need This, but We Do
2 Cluster Analysis Part I: Using K-Means to Segment Your Customer Base
Girls Dance with Girls, Boys Scratch Their Elbows
Getting Real: K-Means Clustering Subscribers in E-mail Marketing
Joey Bag O'Donuts Wholesale Wine Emporium
Euclidean Distance: Measuring Distances as the Crow Flies
Distances and Cluster Assignments for Everybody!
Solving for the Cluster Centers
Getting the Top Deals by Cluster
The Silhouette: A Good Way to Let Different K Values Duke It Out
Getting the Top Deals for All Five Clusters
Computing the Silhouette for 5-Means Clustering
K-Medians Clustering and Asymmetric Distance Measurements
Getting a More Appropriate Distance Metric
The Top Deals for the 5-Medians Clusters
3 Naïve Bayes and the Incredible Lightness of Being an Idiot
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