People use it when they need to compare a student to their peers. Entrepreneurs use it when they’re considering which offerings to keep and which to reject. Scientists use it when they want to figure out the homogeneity of a dataset.
If you haven’t noticed the title of this blog then I am of course referring to Excel but little worried if that didn’t click in your head before reading this.
The biggest professions in the world, and among the 80 percent of job openings that you will see on your career search, require spreadsheet and word-processing software skills, according to a study conducted by Burning Glass. Yet so many people never even give Excel a chance because it has an intimidating stigma around it or because “programming” is seen as an overwhelming ability reserved for the intellectual elite. Poppycock.
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