Product Description

Chart a course for more effective data analysis with Access 2007. With this resource, you’ll learn how Access 2007 offers powerful functionality that may be better suited to your data analysis needs. Learn to analyze large amounts of data in meaningful ways, quickly and easily slice it into various views, automate redundant analysis, and save time—all using Access. If you know a bit about table structures and formulas as well as data analysis, start thinking outside the chart.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69130 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 552 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780470104859
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Chart a course for more effective data analysis

Data analysis is more than crunching numbers and turning them into charts and graphs. Certainly Excel can do that, but you may be surprised to discover that Access 2007 offers powerful functionality that may be even better suited to your data analysis needs. Learn to analyze large amounts of data in meaningful ways, quickly and easily slice it into various views, automate redundant analysis, and save time, all using Access. If you know a bit about table structures and formulas as well as data analysis, start thinking outside the chart.

• Apply Access 2007 to the task of collecting, transforming, analyzing, and presenting data

• Create custom functions, perform batch analysis, and develop automated procedures that essentially run themselves

• Build effective query skills

• Learn to clean and shape raw data, create and utilize custom calculations, work with dates, and perform advanced time analysis

• Work with SQL statements, PivotTables, and PivotCharts

• Perform advanced statistical analysis using subqueries and domain aggregate functions

• See how to use macros and Visual Basic® for Applications to enhance data analysis

Companion web site

Find all the examples from the book in the sample database located at www.wiley.com/go/access2007dataanalysis

About the Author
Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with more than thirteen years of experience consulting and developing office solutions. He currently serves as the director of an analytical services department for a $700 million company. He also runs a free tutorial site, www.datapigtechnologies.com, where he shares basic Access and Excel tips with intermediate users.

Customer Reviews

Great resource for learning how to use Access to analyse your data.
While most Access books focus on designing forms and reports, this book goes straight to the basics of analyzing data. After a short review of table design, the author quickly gets to the heart of data analysis by showing how to construct queries by using Access's graphical interface and illustrating how to write your own SQL. Advanced query techniques using subqueries and domain aggregate functions are fully described.
The author demonstrates how to create pivot tables and charts from within Access and how to use Visual Basic for Applications to increase the power of your application.
I recommend this book for beginning and intermediate users of Access who need to learn how to use Access to analyze data.

Truitt L. Bradly
Senior Actuarial Analyst
Microsoft Office - Access - Most Valuable Professional 2007

Finally a book on analysis with Access
It's refreshing to see a book about data-crunching with Access (instead of how to create a "contact database" or something like that). Clearly written with concrete examples.

Advanced Skills in Access
This is an excellent text, it was used in my CIS 2640 Business Reports and Analysis class at Western Michigan University in the Spring of 2008. I learned a great deal about building tables and queries in Access, a tool that will come in handy in almost any business related work. It's user friendly, and I feel is a good price for what it offers, and is designed from a beginner to someone who is experienced in Office 2003, looking to update their skills.