Data analysis using SQL and Excel
"Data mining expert Gordon Linoff focuses on these topics and shows you how SQL and Excel can be used to extract business information from relational databases. He begins by taking a look at how data is central to the task of understanding customers, products, and markets, and he then goes on t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis, Ind.
Wiley Pub.
2008
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Data mining expert Gordon Linoff focuses on these topics and shows you how SQL and Excel can be used to extract business information from relational databases. He begins by taking a look at how data is central to the task of understanding customers, products, and markets, and he then goes on to show you how to use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, and summarize important data to produce results." "Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of business analysis in order to obtain useful results, how to design and perform the analysis using SQL and Excel, and what you can expect the results to look like." "Throughout the book, critical features of Excel are highlighted, interesting uses of Excel graphics are explained, and dataflows and graphical representations of data processing are used to illustrate how SQL works."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen. - Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xli, 645 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9786611100339 0470228229 9780470952528 9781621984504 0470952520 1281100331 1621984508 9780470228227 9781281100337 |