Tools: Excel/Google Sheets formatting options, Conditional Formatting, Table Styles

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Amazing Factor Achieved: Your data now looks professional and intuitive. Key information jumps out at the viewer.
Day 4: Insight Generation - Summaries & Initial Analytics
Goal: Transform your clean data into meaningful summaries and answer key business questions.
Key Focus: Data aggregation and core analysis.
Actions:
Master Pivot Tables (3-4 hours): This is the king of data summarization.
Create Multiple Pivots: Generate several pivot tables on a new sheet, answering different questions (e.g., "Total sales by region," "Count of bugs by priority," "Average customer rating by product").
Use Slicers & Timelines: Add slicers to your pivot tables for interactive filtering by category (e.g., product, region) and timelines for date-based filtering.
Show Percentages of Total: Don't just show raw numbers; add columns that show values as a percentage brother cell phone list of the grand total or row/column total.
Build Simple Summary Tables (2-3 hours): For specific, non-pivot-table questions, use functions like SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS to create small, clear summary tables (e.g., "Total High-Priority Bugs Last Month").
Identify and Display Key Metrics (KPIs) (1-2 hours): What are the 3-5 most important numbers your data can tell? Calculate these (e.g., Total Revenue, Average Order Value, Customer Churn Rate) and display them prominently.
Tools: Excel/Google Sheets Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS.