Predictive Analytics

Microsoft Excel MVP Conrad Carlberg shows readers how to use Excel predictive analytics to solve real-world problems in areas ranging from sales and marketing to operations. Carlberg offers unprecedented insight into building powerful, credible, and reliable forecasts, showing how to gain deep insights from Excel that would be difficult to uncover with costly tools such as SAS or SPSS. Readers will get an extensive collection of downloadable Excel workbooks that can be easily adapted to their own unique requirements, plus VBA code--much of it open-source--to streamline several of this book's most complex techniques. Step by step, readers build on Excel skills they already have, learning advanced techniques that can help them increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve productivity.