Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Business Analytics
By Cliff Ragsdale
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Clearly present important spreadsheet and business analytics skills with SPREADSHEET MODELING AND DECISION ANALYSIS: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYTICS, 9E, written by spreadsheet instructional innovator and business analytics leader Cliff Ragsdale. Your students master today’s most widely used business analytics techniques as they become proficient with the latest Excel® capabilities and functions in Microsoft® Office 365 or Office 2019. A new full-color presentation and succinct instructions highlight commonly used business analytics techniques and demonstrate how to implement these tools using the latest version of Excel®. Students develop both algebraic and spreadsheet modeling skills. This edition features Frontline Systems’ Analytic Solver® and Data Mining add-ins for performing optimization, simulation and decision analysis, data mining and predictive analytics in Excel®. WebAssign digital resources provide customizable teaching tools and author-created videos.
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Clearly present important spreadsheet and business analytics skills with SPREADSHEET MODELING AND DECISION ANALYSIS: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYTICS, 9E, written by spreadsheet instructional innovator and business analytics leader Cliff Ragsdale. Your students master today’s most widely used business analytics techniques as they become proficient with the latest Excel® capabilities and functions in Microsoft® Office 365 or Office 2019. A new full-color presentation and succinct instructions highlight commonly used business analytics techniques and demonstrate how to implement these tools using the latest version of Excel®. Students develop both algebraic and spreadsheet modeling skills. This edition features Frontline Systems’ Analytic Solver® and Data Mining add-ins for performing optimization, simulation and decision analysis, data mining and predictive analytics in Excel®. WebAssign digital resources provide customizable teaching tools and author-created videos.
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS FRONTLINE SYSTEMS’ ANALYTIC SOLVER® AND DATA MINING ADD-INS FOR EXCEL. Students learn to use these leading business analytics tools for optimization, simulation and data mining, including data import and cleansing, data exploration and visualization, feature selection, clustering and affinity analysis. Students also practice techniques for predictive analytics, including discriminant analysis, neural networks, logistic regression, classification and regression trees, k-nearest neighbor, naïve Bayes and times-series analysis. For more information, go to solver.com.
TEACHING RESOURCES ENHANCE CLASS PRESENTATION AND REDUCE PREPARATION. A thoroughly revised and carefully crafted set of PowerPoint® slides and Excel solution files, prepared by the text author, reduce your preparation time while providing tools to clarify concepts in your course.
UPDATED CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS THE LATEST EXCEL FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 AND OFFICE 2019. This timely coverage provides students with the most current tools and information for dealing with key business analytics decision-making problems.
SIDE-BY-SIDE ALGEBRAIC FORMULATIONS AND SPREADSHEETS SUPPORT CONCEPTUAL THINKING SKILLS. Step-by-step instructions and numerous annotated screenshots make examples easy to follow and understand.
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