Microsoft Excel is a useful tool for tracking data. By providing past sales data and other factors that affect your sales, you can use Excel's Forecast function to forecast future sales numbers. This ...

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

Forecasting is described as the practice of creating statements that anticipate future information. You should not confuse forecasting with budgeting, which uses future information to create a plan to ...

One can’t read any news today without a barrage of articles about data science and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Just recently, Jeff Bezos opened up his private MARS (Machine Learning, ...

People excel at spotting patterns and making adjustments based on feedback, while computers excel at processing huge amounts of data quickly. Put those capabilities together and you have machine ...

Chase is the CEO of ProAI, an AI-powered platform providing customized tools and advisory to help businesses start, fund and scale. In an increasingly volatile business landscape, data-driven ...