Everyday FunctionsPost 1

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Everyday Functions What sorts of data and functions do you already use in your day-to-day life that would benefit from automatic calculation in an Excel spreadsheet? Create a post in which you identify one or two ideas. Describe the analytical problem you're trying to address and how you think Excel would help you do so better. Instructions: You are required to participate meaningfully in course discussions. You must post to the board before seeing other students' posts. You are encouraged to respond and engage meaningfully with your peers.  Your responses will be reviewed according to the following criteria: o Comprehension: Demonstrates an understanding of course content. o Synthesis: Demonstrates ability to synthesize course content within the project topic.  o Originality: Utilizes your own original thinking. o Development: Clearly articulates and fully addresses all required questions/topics.  To participate in this discussion: Click  Reply  to post a comment or reply to another comment. Please consider that this is a professional forum; courtesy and professional language and tone are expected. Before posting, please review  eCornell's policy regarding plagiarism (the presentation of someone else's work as your own without source credit). Please note: While discussion board postings will be accepted through the end of the course, we strongly encourage everyone to move through this course as a group. As such, postings that are made to this board after 5pm ET on the due date will be read and graded but may not receive a response on the board from your facilitator and/or your peers. Please let your facilitator know if you have any questions. There are many pools of data and functions that are used in my day-to-day life. How much of normal everyday life can be calculated and analyzed? I would assume a good portion of that and I look forward to gathering the skills needed to gather that data, organize it and find use of that information. The two that stick out to me are the family calendar and our personal finances. The analytical problem for the family calendar that I would like Excel to solve for would be time management. Our family has many activities and events that need to be accounted for on any day. In addition to those commitments that are the family tasks that need to be completed.
Such as household chores, homework, and practicing. How could we use our time between other commitments to accomplish these tasks. I think Excel could help identify which tasks could be accomplished in the allotted times within the calendar. My assumption would be that the project time effort for each task would first need to be identified along with the other variables for the allotted times. For our personal finances, I would think Excel would be an ideal tool to help solve for understanding what is coming in versus what is being paid out. The problem I would like help solving would be areas of opportunity to cut expenses and where are the areas of greatest financial drain. I believe Excel has formulas that could help calculate these areas of opportunity in our family finances. Thank you, Erin Schebler I am a newer business analyst and one of the many topics I have been asked to review is sales data. This sales data can be overwhelming. It will include many different variables including quantity, market segment and plan demographics. I would want to understand any patterns and visualize the best way to define these groups within the data. In addition to the valuable functions we learned, for example sum and copying data into new cells, using VLOOKUP can help organizing this sales data. I originally found this to be a daunting task but with the skills I am building through this class, I know have a foundation of how to organize the data in a more visually appealing way. Thank you, Erin Schebler
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