How to select a random sample from all your data [trick]
The other day, I got a text message (SMS) from one of our readers. It read,
So today, let us learn a very easy trick to select random sample from your data.
January 31, 2014
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The other day, I got a text message (SMS) from one of our readers. It read,
So today, let us learn a very easy trick to select random sample from your data.
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How do you segment customers by revenue easily in Excel, so that you can see which customer groups to focus on. Find out, and download this handy template.
In this charting example, Jeff, our guest author, occasional charter and Excel wizard shows us how to segment customers based on revenue and depict the result using Excel charts.
Well here’s something I never knew until today…I was watching one of Mike ExcelIsFun Girvin’s great YouTube videos from his great Slaying Excel Dragons series
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Blank cells are an invisible pain in the analysis. Dealing with them is frustrating, time consuming and often very complex. At chandoo.org, we are not big fans of blank cells. That is why we wrote:
Today, lets talk about one more scenario. Lets say you want to find out the first non-blank item in a list. How would you do it?
Ever wondered how to go from a bunch of cells with text to one big combined text? Like shown above.
Well, there is a simple trick. One of our readers, Grant shared this with us. Read on to learn this.
Today lets have a poll. Lets debate if this pie chart about world elections in 2014 is good or bad.
This chart, published by The Economist talks about how 42% of the world population is going to vote this year. Take a look and read on to learn how you can re-create this in Excel.
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