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While this topic is not finance/FP&A related, it has elements of thinking about your data. Some news came across my feed saying the early voting turnout on the Democrat side suggests that Texas is turning BLUE! I want to add some critical thinking to the delirious news media presentation. I’ve heard that many times over…
A few weeks ago, someone asked me to review with her some Excel features in preparation for any interviews with Microsoft. So, I was flattered. This post will be a summary of what we discussed and will have LOTS of quotes from CoPilot. Advanced versus Excel The first thing she did was asked CoPilot: “Which…
In finance, we are usually reporting what has already happened. The financial results are usually lagging indicators. But typically we want to be aware of leading indicators so that we can pounce on opportunities or head off disasters. Which is why we want operational or economic data upstream of the reporting results. Shipping information as…
I thought I would revisit the tariffs and prices since there have been quite a few protests and irate town halls. What are people protesting? Well, three comes to mind: 1) DOGE cutting essential services that people use; 2) the deportation without due process; and 3) tariffs. The topic of prices has not been specifically…
Last week, I did a post about AI versus Humans in the forecasting arena. This week I aim to share the story with a different slant: the power of visuals. I used the game of predicting the Oscars as a way of presenting the value of using visuals in some cases. Quite often in my…
In the last post, I showed you how to bring in data from PDFs into Excel through Power Query. This post will detail some of the rudimentary power query capabilities to get you started. If you need to know how to access Power Query, just follow along the last post located here. Otherwise, continue reading…
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