When I was in Middle School, I took a required course in Microsoft Excel. Of course, they didn't bother to teach us any of the really cool things about the application. All we really did was plug some numbers into a couple of columns and perform a few simple functions. The 12-year-old me would have never believed the amazing things one can do with this über-app.
Top 3 Things I've Recently Discovered About Excel
1. Its Amazing Formulaic Capabilities
Not only can you do basic things like summation, etc, but if you delve deeper into the functions menu, you'll find lots of different advanced operations. My favorite are the logical functions (if, then, etc.), which I've begun to use for constructing a projection formula.
2. Data Plotting and Analysis
Its graphing capabilities certainly very solid, and the ability to add a trendline and calculate the correlation is very useful in many ways. I've already utilized these functions in multiple posts in this blog.
3. Usefulness & Mac Compatibility
I use a Mac myself, and I have to say that the program works flawlessly and seamlessly on my computer.
OK sorry if this post was a downer after some of my recent essays, but I do have a legitimate excuse. My internet went down for an entire day late this week, and I was having trouble coming up with an idea in the first place, so i was set back quite a bit. But honestly, Excel needs some love here (absolutely no sarcasm.)
There will definitely be an extremely intense baseball post here next weekend, I promise :)
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