Tools and Techniques for Mastering Data

Make smarter business decisions using these powerful data analysis methods.Are you tired of being under constant pressure to make the right number-based decisions for your organization? Are you too often overwhelmed by an out-of-control flood of numerical information, much of it conflicting and confusing?

This seminar goes beyond the qualitative side of data analysis to explore proven quantitative tools and methods for analyzing, interpreting and utilizing data, so that more informed and reliable business decisions can be made. Take this course to solve the problem of how to productively handle the spreadsheets, reports and information that pile up in your inbox every day—and lose the angst that goes with it!

Also Available as:

• Onsite

How You Will Benefit

• Learn the best practices for organizing, summarizing and interpreting quantitative data
• Create a repeatable process for analyzing your data
• Bring out patterns in data that were not apparent at first glance
• Identify and explain tools for data analysis
• Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
• Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions

What You Will Cover

• Using data and statistics effectively in business today
• Improper data manipulations and their consequences
• Exploring quantitative data collection methods
• Improving analysis success by effectively utilizing software
• Understanding regression, trend lines and scenarios in Excel
• Utilizing the power of business intelligence software
• Finding and analyzing data patterns, trends and fluctuations
• Interpreting and translating data into decisions

Who Should Attend

Managers, individual contributors and others who need ways to quantitatively and accurately analyze the mountains of data that come across their desk each minute of every day.

Please bring a laptop equipped with Excel 2010 to this seminar.