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Home / News & Events / Beyond Excel: Quantitative Data Analysis with Insightful

Beyond Excel: Quantitative Data Analysis with Insightful

Presented: January 31, 2006

Speakers: David Smith, Senior Finance Product Manager, Insightful Corporation

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Excel is commonly used to store and send financial data, but many people run into limitations when using it for large-scale quantitative analysis of financial data. Complex workbooks with multiple tabs and intertwined cell references can easily become difficult to maintain and validate. And of course, once the data grows beyond 65,000 records, Excel can no longer handle it.

In this presentation, you'll learn how Insightful software can help you deal with these limitations in Excel, by allowing you to analyze large data sets and quickly create reliable, maintainable analytic applications. An introduction to Insightful's data analysis products and description of how to integrate scalable quantitative data analysis in an Excel-based environment will also be discussed.


David Smith, Senior Product Manger,
Insightful Corporation

 David Smith joined Insightful's UK-based team in 1998 as International Product Manager and moved to the Seattle headquarters in 2000. A long-time S-PLUS user with intimate knowledge of Insightful's technology, David is responsible for the design, content and production of Insightful's financial product line. Before joining Insightful, David was employed as a Research Associate at Lancaster University in Northern England, working on methods and S-PLUS based software for longitudinal data analysis. His introduction to S-PLUS came in 1991 as a consultant with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia.