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SearchOpenSource: Using the Data Pilot: OpenOffice.org Calc’s Answer to Pivot Tables

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 7, 2006

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
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“With the right statistics, you can prove anything. Whether you
want to prove that coffee shops serving your company’s brand of
coffee have 12.5% more attractive customers, that your spouse does
only 23.42% of the chores around the house, or that the Flying
Spaghetti Monster is the one true deity, you need to be able to
manipulate and slice and dice your data to produce the right
statistics.

“To do this, of course, you’ll need to have a good tool. In
OpenOffice.org, one of your choices is the data pilot, the
equivalent of pivot tables in Excel…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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