Excel basics to blackbelt: an accelerated guide to decision support designs
Choice Reviews Online · 2009
Excel Basics to Blackbelt is intended to serve as an accelerated guide to decision support designs. Its structure is designed to enhance skills in Excel of those who have never used it for anything but possibly storing phone numbers, enabling them to reach to a level of mastery that will allow them to develop user interfaces and automated applications. To accomplish this, major theme of text is the integration of basic; as a result readers will be able to develop decision support tools that are at once highly intuitive from a working-components perspective but also highly significant from perspective of practical use and distribution. Applications integration discussed includes use of MS MapPoint, XLStat and RISKOptimizer, as well as how to leverage Excel's iteration mode, web queries, visual basic code, and interface development. There are ample examples throughout text.