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  • Why You Needed To Have Power Pivot Yesterday
    insights, but is typically restricted to just a single table or source of data, meaning that companies would ... spreadsheets and consolidate these into a single table to be pivoted. Enter Power Pivot. Power Pivot is ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: May 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation
  • Running simulations using Excel without VBA
    Excel. Let me (re)introduce you to the humble data table. For those who haven’t used data tables in the past ... write-up in the October 2015 newsletter. A data table answers a relatively simple question: “what-if” ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation
  • Power Query
    Marketplace, SQL database, HDInsight, Blob and Table storage; and Other: Web, SharePoint, OData, Microsoft ... actual data, then unpivoting the table so that they have a thin, long table with just the hotel name and ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Business intelligence
  • Actuarial Monopoly – bringing Markov home to the family
    and the three Orange properties in mixed order. Table header: Steady State probabilities For aficionados ... Markov Chain analysis. Table header: Expected value, by square: The preceding table shows how we can assess ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Apr 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain
  • Why "Simple" Doesn't Mean "Transparent" Financial Modelling
    nests to get the result. That being said, no individual part of the formula is particularly difficult ... also faced with the challenge of interrogating individual cells to determine if an item has been calculated ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Jul 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices
  • Excel as an IT System
    Excel as an IT System I was planning on writing this article about six months ago, and never ... meeting where all the requirements are put on the table and scoped out, spreadsheets are often born from ...
    • Authors: Tim Heng
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk; Technology & Applications>Software