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Whether you're a complete beginner or a grizzled veteran, Thinking Spreadsheet will make you an Excel expert. Its clear instruction and carefully-chosen examples will help you * Understand how spreadsheets work, what they do well, and what they don't do well. * Use the spreadsheet's structure to intelligently organize your data. * Solve problems using techniques that take advantage of the spreadsheet's strengths. * Build spreadsheets that are easy to understand and difficult to break. Along the way you'll learn core spreadsheet principles, basic tools like SUM() and IF(), advanced functions like MATCH() and VLOOKUP(), and power-user features like array formulas and pivot tables. You'll also learn a little bit of mathematics, a little bit of probability, a little bit of statistics, and a whole lot about how to intelligently solve problems. You might even laugh a few times!

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7 February 2011
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brightwalton LLC (7 February 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0982481810
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0982481813
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 2.49 x 23.5 cm

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Joel Grus is Principal Engineer at Capital Group, where he leads a small team that designs and implements machine learning and data products. Before that he was a software engineer at the Allen Institute for AI and Google, and a data scientist at a variety of startups.

He's the author of the the beloved "Data Science from Scratch", the quirky "Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz", and the polarizing JupyterCon talk "I Don't Like Notebooks".

He lives in Seattle, where he regularly attends data science happy hours. He blogs infrequently at joelgrus.com.

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"Thinking Spreadsheet" will make you a spreadsheet expert. The title is not arbitrary; it refers to the author's philosophy of making spreadsheets that are difficult to break and easy to comprehend.

The subject matter really is spreadsheets themselves, not any particular spreadsheet program. All of the examples in the book were done in Excel 2007. My experience with spreadsheets is in Excel 2003 (and older) since that is what I use for business. I worked through most of the examples in the book using my personal MacBook which is running Open Office's Calc spreadsheet program. At no time did I feel like this book wasn't useful because I wasn't using Excel.

If you lack experience with spreadsheets, you will learn the core functionality that makes spreadsheets so powerful. If you're already a spreadsheet junkie, the main thing you can expect to get from this book is the ability to use spreadsheets to solve problems. In working through the examples you will learn some new formulas and also see those formulas applied in creative ways to accomplish challenging tasks. In short, it puts some new tools in your spreadsheet toolbox.

Oh, and I can't believe I am writing this about a book on spreadsheets, but it's actually pretty funny!

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Accessible, readable, knowledgeable, enjoyable. I have upgraded my rather basic knowledge of spreadsheets so that now I can say they are a tool I can apply with confidence and ease for handling my research data.

Art Winston

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Intriguing title but little else. The presentation isn't poor, but there's not much "Thinking" going on.
Alas, I had hoped for another like Hudspeth's "The Underground Guide to Excel....."

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