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Are small schools better? | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. A new view on your data: Pivot Tables. How good are you at estimating? Are small schools better? April 13, 2015. Can you get fooled by random events? You bet you can. Here’s an interesting example, recounted by Daniel Kahneman in his book. Thinking Fast and Slow. Now when we look at the very tails of the distributions, we find small schools, not because they’re better or worse, but simply because their average scores are more variable. So which is better? Fill ...
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May | 2015 | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. Monthly Archives: May 2015. How good are you at estimating? May 11, 2015. Strategic decision-making often requires you to estimate current and future quantities. Here’s a quiz to see how good you are at it. For each quantity below (2009 data unless noted otherwise), make your best guess. Don’t try to find the answers, just guess. Annual consumption of popped popcorn in the US (quarts). GNP of Belgium ($M). Number of cats in the US. Population of Romania, 2007.
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. As a decision-maker, you probably see a lot of Excel charts. They often take the form of a dashboard that summarizes the current status. Because of this, you probably think of Excel as a tool for number crunchers or bean counters. These are the people who keep track of all those tedious columns of numbers and then summarize them in pretty graphs. Why would you be bothered with that sort of thing? How much start-up capital do I need? What if I live to 90? Why wo...
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A new view on your data: Pivot Tables | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. Dealing with data: Sort and Filter. Are small schools better? A new view on your data: Pivot Tables. March 9, 2015. Excel’s pivot tables reorganize, categorize, and summarize your data dynamically however you want. Look at it one way, then in seconds, look at it another way. It has a lot of features, but the basics alone are powerful. Today I’ll show you how to use it on a simple example. Let’s take the example from last time, a spending log. This feature does ...
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March | 2015 | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. Monthly Archives: March 2015. A new view on your data: Pivot Tables. March 9, 2015. Excel’s pivot tables reorganize, categorize, and summarize your data dynamically however you want. Look at it one way, then in seconds, look at it another way. It has a lot of features, but the basics alone are powerful. Today I’ll show you how to use it on a simple example. Let’s take the example from last time, a spending log. Pivot table dialog box. Blank Pivot Table Builder.
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. I will speak to your group on such topics as discovering the important issues, balancing priorities, or tools for decision-making. In fact, if you have a business group or non-profit in Los Angeles or Orange County, I may be able to speak at your event at no charge. Put together a group of at least eight people and I will present one of my workshops at your site. Choose from the following topics or let me craft a workshop for your particular needs:. Most of my ...
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April | 2015 | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. Monthly Archives: April 2015. Are small schools better? April 13, 2015. Can you get fooled by random events? You bet you can. Here’s an interesting example, recounted by Daniel Kahneman in his book. Thinking Fast and Slow. Now when we look at the very tails of the distributions, we find small schools, not because they’re better or worse, but simply because their average scores are more variable. So which is better? Follow Blog via Email. Join 50 other followers.
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Make It Happen | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. Make It Happen: Seven Steps to Positive Decisions. Decision-making is both art and science. Decision science often focuses on making a choice among alternatives, yet being an effective decision-maker requires much more than this. This is where the art comes in. What is the most important problem to be solved? What are the alternatives? What does the future hold? What about all these conflicting goals? Mission: Discover the question to be answered. Click to shar...
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February | 2015 | Take Charge
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Thoughts and resources for decision makers. Monthly Archives: February 2015. Dealing with data: Sort and Filter. February 9, 2015. Have you ever been overwhelmed with data? How can you organize it? How can you make sense of it all? It’s easy to turn on Sort and Filter. Click anywhere in your table and then find Sort and Filter. It might be called simply Filter in the Data menu, or may be an icon that looks like a funnel. Try Home Editing Sort and Filter Filter. Now when you click on that little arrow, it...