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After all of these years, I learned a new trick that you can use with the SUBTOTAL function. I’ve been using SUBTOTAL as a form of SUM, but you can also use it for counting or averaging as well as other statistical type actions. SUBTOTAL(9, “range”) gives you the sum whereas SUBTOTAL(1, “range”) gives you…
I just read recently that eBay and American Express are planning some layoffs, even after some healthy profits. So now, it’s no longer about laying off people to get back into profits; it’s about laying off people so that executives can direct more money into theirs and shareholder’s pockets. To quote from the article: “Yahoo…
I read the other day a self-published article from LinkedIn/Pulse about spreadsheet error. The author talks about the different sources of error and how they can greatly impact your financials, mostly in an adverse manner. One, there is the common manual input or copy/paste error. He faults many organizations for not automating their spreadsheets, thus opening…
This past week we saw lots of improvement. So the implication of the past week is you have to give it time for people to learn how to use new things, especially technology. We spend 12 years in schools plus 4 more years in college before we are deemed qualified to work. So why do…
For some reason, “A rising tide lifts all boats” popped into my head recently. Followed by “you must have a boat to begin with.” Or, rising tide raises the wealthy yachts so high into rarefied air that they are no longer in touch with the regular folks. You are no longer a person of value. (Still trying…
Even a HR specialist can be a data scientist! Okay, I read an article in LinkedIn/Pulse about an HR specialist spending the past year working with data to see if he could see any trends. I’m sure most data scientists would take offense at the HR person calling himself a data scientist – it is…
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