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Gateway to Business Analytics with Microsoft Excel®

Pressbooks URL: https://doi.org/10.59319/FMVH4866

Website URL: www.depauw.edu/site/learn/econexcel/busanalytics

Shortcut: tiny.cc/busanalyticsexcel

This text uses Microsoft Excel® to deliver a sampling of topics in business analytics as an introduction to the field. There are no prerequisites, and the target audience is first- or second-year undergraduate students who have used a spreadsheet before but have no specialized training in Excel, calculus, statistics, or programming.

Readers acquire sophisticated Excel skills and a solid foundation for further work in business analytics. With concrete examples, novel applications, and eye-catching visualizations, engagement is guaranteed as the user creates spreadsheets, manipulates live graphs, and analyzes data.

Humberto Barreto is Professor of Business Analytics at DePauw University. He earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Barreto has lectured around the world on teaching economics with computer-based methods, including in Cuba, Brazil, Canada, Scotland, Spain, Poland, India, Myanmar, Japan, and Taiwan. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic and has taught National Science Foundation (NSF) Chautauqua short courses using simulation. He has received several research and teaching awards. His book The Entrepreneur in Microeconomic Theory was translated into Arabic in 1999. He has written numerous articles and books on using Excel to teach economics (including introductory-level material, micro- and macroeconomics, and econometrics). He offers an annual workshop for faculty on teaching economics. Visit his Teaching Economics with Excel website for more information: tiny.cc/econexcel.