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Data Forecasting and Segmentation Using Microsoft Excel

This book uses real-life datasets from Kaggle to explain basic statistics for machine learning for data segmentation, regression predictions, and forecasts. You’ll focus on variable dependency and autocorrelation to build, test, and use a linear regression prediction model and time series forecasts.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

10h48m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for data and business analysts as well as data science professionals. MIS, finance, and auditing professionals working with MS Excel will also find this book beneficial.

Book content

chapters 10h48m total length

Understanding Data Segmentation

Applying Linear Regression

What is Time Series?

An Introduction to Data Grouping

Finding the Optimal Number of Single Variable Groups

Finding the Optimal Number of Multi-Variable Groups

Analyzing Outliers for Data Anomalies

Finding the Relationship between Variables

Building, Training, and Validating a Linear Model

Building, Training, and Validating a Multiple Regression Model

Testing Data for Time Series Compliance

Working with Time Series Using the Centered Moving Average and a Trending Component

Training, Validating, and Running the Model

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