Learnfungo announces free e-book and webinar on Microsoft excel Pivot tables

Sept. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- For all those people that look and work with Microsoft excel and wish there was a way they could become more effective with data analysis, Microsoft's Pivot table provides a powerful tool that allows you to quickly and efficiently gain meaningful insights in to heaps of data. The best of all, its an in-built tool. Which means if you have Microsoft excel on your computer, you can get rapidly plugged in to this fascinating tool.  

Learnfungo has just announced, for a limited time, free ebook on Pivot table fundamentals (it can be downloaded from here http://learnfungo.com/downloads/Microsoft%20excel%20pivot%20tables%20fundamentals.pdf). To top it up Learnfungo is also offering a free Webinar on Sep 19th at 6 PM Eastern time (https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/332591478), space is limited.  

About Microsoft excel Pivot tables:
Pivot tables provide a way for its users' to extract, organize, and summarize data. It’s an interactive tool, which can help transform large sets of data into summary-based results.

Imagine that you have just been handed a sheet of data with rows and rows of data. You are tasked to analyze the trends from this underlying data. With pivot tables, you could -
 Organize your data in such a way that you could choose which data fields will be in rows and which will appear in columns.
 You could summarize certain data fields such as the total counts of products sold.
 You could apply page level filters, such as a sheet that will show product sales data for a specific sales region.
The power of pivot tables, however, is in the fact that you could very easily and interactively change the organization of your data with just a few mouse clicks.