Lynda - Excel Data Analysis: Forecasting | 818MB

Duration: 3h 07m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Professor Wayne Winston has taught advanced forecasting techniques to Fortune 500 companies for more than twenty years. In this course, he shows how to use Excel's data-analysis tools—including charts, formulas, and functions—to create accurate and insightful forecasts. Learn how to display time-series data visually; make sure your forecasts are accurate, by computing for errors and bias; use trendlines to identify trends and outlier data; model growth; account for seasonality; and identify unknown variables, with multiple regression analysis. A series of practice challenges along the way helps you test your skills and compare your work to Wayne's solutions.

Topics include:

* Plotting and displaying time-series data

* Creating a moving average chart

* Accounting for errors and bias

* Using and interpreting trendlines

* Modeling exponential growth

* Calculating compound annual growth rate (CAGR)

* Analyzing the impact of seasonality

* Introducing the ratio-to-moving-average method

* Forecasting with multiple regression