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Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), 7th Edition
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Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), 7th Edition

by Wayne Winston
December 2021
Beginner to intermediate
1168 pages
30h 17m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), 7th Edition

Chapter 30

Summarizing data with histograms and Pareto charts

Questions answered in this chapter:

  • People often say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Can I use Excel to create a picture (called a histogram) that summarizes the values in a data set?

  • What are some common shapes of histograms?

  • What can I learn by comparing histograms from different data sets?

  • How do I create a Pareto chart?

The ability to summarize a large data set is important. The three tools used most often to summarize data in Microsoft Excel are histograms, descriptive statistics, and PivotTables.

This chapter discusses the use of histograms for summarizing data. Before Excel 2016, you used the Data Analysis add-in to create histograms. The histograms created by this ...

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