What's an interesting analysis technique/trick/theorem you think everyone should look into?

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I think fuzzy matching

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=SUM() in excel. Very powerful

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VLOOKUP makes you look competent, INDEX MATCH makes you look like a GOD

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Any mathematical optimization function

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There’s a download add-on for excel called solver that does optimization and it has saved me so much time when I have to explain it to non-technical people. Python and data science in general would have been rejected, but when I show them a test case in excel suddenly it’s green lights, budget and promotions 🤣

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Linear & mixed integer optimization. Very useful.

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