Creating and Verifying Data Sets with Excel

<p>Accurate data entry and analysis can be deceptively labor-intensive and time-consuming. <b>Creating and Verifying Data Sets with Excel</b> is a focused easy-to-read guide that gives readers the wherewithal to make use of a remarkable set of data tools tucked within Excel—tools most researchers are entirely unaware of. Robert E. McGrath’s book is the first to focus exclusively on Excel as a data entry system. It incorporates a number of learning tools such as screenshots text boxes that summarize key points examples from across the social sciences tips for creating professional-looking tables and questions at the end of each chapter. Providing practical strategies to improve and ease the processes of data entry creation and analysis this step-by-step guide is a brief but invaluable resource for both students and researchers.</p><p> </p><p>I have been messing around with data for over 40 years and I still learned useful techniques and tricks from this book. It will be invaluable for everyone doing data analysis from novices to experts. I highly recommend it.</p><p style=text-align: right;><b>—David L. Streiner</b> <i>McMaster University</i></p><p> </p><p>“Excel has become a standard tool in the modern workplace. This well-written and accessible book covers foundational Excel data skills that are rarely taught directly in quantitative methods classes but are essential for anyone who aspires to succeed in a data-driven environment.”</p><p style=text-align: right;><b>—Kurt Taylor Gaubatz</b> <i>Old Dominion University</i></p>