Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook: Adding Excel to Your Analysis Arsenal - Softcover

Bourg, David M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596008791 ISBN 13: 9780596008796

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2006

Synopsis

Given the improved analytical capabilities of Excel, scientists and engineers everywhere are using it--instead of FORTRAN--to solve problems. And why not? Excel is installed on millions of computers, features a rich set of built-in analyses tools, and includes an integrated Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language. No wonder it's today's computing tool of choice.

Chances are you already use Excel to perform some fairly routine calculations. Now the Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook shows you how to leverage Excel to perform more complex calculations, too, calculations that once fell in the domain of specialized tools. It does so by putting a smorgasbord of data analysis techniques right at your fingertips. The book shows how to perform these useful tasks and others:

• Use Excel and VBA in general
• Import data from a variety of sources
• Analyze data
• Perform calculations
• Visualize the results for interpretation and presentation
• Use Excel to solve specific science and engineering problems

Wherever possible, the Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook draws on real-world examples from a range of scientific disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and physics. This way, you'll be better prepared to solve the problems you face in your everyday scientific or engineering tasks.

High on practicality and low on theory, this quick, look-up reference provides instant solutions, or "recipes," to problems both basic and advanced. And like other books in O'Reilly's popular Cookbook format, each recipe also includes a discussion on how and why it works. As a result, you can take comfort in knowing that complete, practical answers are a mere page-flip away.

About this title

From the Publisher

This quick, look-up reference is perfect for anyone in the science and engineering community who wants to improve upon their Excel skills. You'll learn how to leverage Excel to perform both routine and complex calculations, and then visualize the results for presentation. Features practical data analysis techniques and real-world examples from a range of scientific disciplines.

Book Description

Adding Excel to Your Analysis Arsenal

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0596008791
• ISBN 13: 9780596008796
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 442