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exam30.avi
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exam30.avi
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Excel and Access solution.
exam29.avi
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exam29.avi
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Excel and Access solution.
exam28.avi
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exam28.avi
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Excel and Access solution.
exam27.avi
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exam27.avi
(uncompressed version 277 MB)
Excel and Access solution.
exam26A.avi
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exam26A.avi
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Excel and Access solution.
exam26B.avi
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exam26B.avi
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Excel and Access solution.
exam25A.avi
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exam25A.avi
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Excel and Access solution.
exam25B.avi
(44 MB)
exam25B.avi
(uncompressed version 213 MB)
Excel and Access solution.

Videos of lessons

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excel01.avi
20 MB
excel01.avi
(uncompressed version 184 MB)
Microsoft Excel introduction, sheet and cells. Cells’ references, columns, rows, name box, formula bar, status bar with autocalculate, sheets tab. Move the pointer. Selection of rectangular and non rectangular areas. Data entry with arrows, with tab and enter. Data types. Force Excel to accept text
excel02.avi
107 MB
excel02.avi
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Values: general, number, currency, date, time, percentage. Formulas. Text. Cell format dialog box. Data entry and conversion: problems with dates and with percentages. Autofill, autoincrement. Copy, paste, paste value only. Importing fixed fields tables, tab-delimited or character-delimited tables. Excel formulas: mathematical operations, typical errors. Cells references: relative, absolute, cell name, formula dragging. Functions and help on functions. Mathematical functions: LOG, LN, PI, SQRT, EXP, ABS, ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, MAX, MIN, RAND.
excel03.avi
52 MB

excel03.avi
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SUM, PRODUCT, conditional sum SUMIF. Logical functions: IF, AND, NOT, OR. Text functions: TRIM, LEN, RIGHT, LEFT, CONCATENATE, REPT. Date and time functions: date serial format, time decimal format, additions and subtractions, NOW, TODAY, WEEKDAY.
excel04.avi
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excel04.avi
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Net present value XNPV and internal rate of return XIRR. Internal rate of return: examples of non existence and non uniqueness. Economical meaning of internal rate of return. TAEG and TAN. Mortgage loan with constant rate and constant payments: table, PMT, IPMT, RATE, NPER.
excel05.avi
44 MB
excel05.avi
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Mortgage loan with variable rate: table, variable length, variable payments. Statistical functions: AVERAGE, MEDIAN, STDEV, NORMDIST, NORMINV.
excel06.avi
134 MB
excel06.avi
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Multiple sheets references and multiple files references. Goal seek. Circular reference. Printing: Page setup, Orientation and scaling, Margins and centering, Header and footer, Printing area, Gridlines. Page breaks viewer.
Document formats, producing and protecting PDF files. Column size calibration, column hiding and unhiding. Automatic styles. Conditional formatting, managing rules.
producePDF.avi
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producePDF.avi
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Produce and protect PDF files with Acrobat X.
excel07.avi
114 MB
excel07.avi
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Chart types: 1 data series (Histograms, Line and Area, Pie, Scatter), Multiple data series (Stacked histogram, Stacked lines, Scatter for 2 series, Stacked area). Difference between scatter plot and line plot. Producing charts, switch rows and columns, add and modify data, layout, style, location, plot area features, axis features. Inserting text box with arrow, titles, legend, gridlines and axis scale. Drawings: inserting shapes, green and yellow points, styles, shading, borders, shadow, 3-d effects, relative position, grouping. Sheet protection. Splitting and freezing panes. Inserting comments. Lists (small databases): sorting, filtering. Pictures. Hyperlinks.
excel08.avi
48 MB
excel08.avi
(uncompressed version 208 MB)
Pivot table, filtering, sorting, pivot chart. Analysis toolpak installation. Descriptive statistics, histograms, changing bins for histograms.
access01.avi
63 MB
access01.avi
(uncompressed version 507 MB)

Northwind database overview. Access overview, Saving operations. Tables, field types, primary key. Queries, query wizard, design view, sorting, criteria.

access02.avi
65 MB
access02.avi
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Using other fields for criteria, asking for values, virtual fields, expression builder, functions DateDiff, DateAdd, Year, Between.
access03.avi
54 MB
access03.avi
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Summary queries, examples, “where” and “group by”
Reports: structure and examples. Exporting and printing reports.

access04.avi
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access04.avi
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Tables: Fields and fields’ features. Validation rules, table validation rules. Like operator.
access05.avi
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access05.avi
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Importing tables from Excel. Building new tables. Relations: relationships diagram, building relations, referential integrity, Lookup Wizard, mandatory and non-mandatory value lists. Forms: structure and examples, subform, locking form aand subform.

Advanced Computer Skills


Videos of practical part of exams

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exam21.avi 279 MegaBytes SPSS solution.
exam20.avi 206 MegaBytes SPSS solution.
exam19a.avi 118 MegaBytes SPSS solution.
exam19b.avi 105 MegaBytes SPSS solution.
exam18.avi 140 MegaBytes SPSS solution.
exam17.avi 229 MegaBytes SPSS solution.

Videos of SPSS lessons

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spss01.avi
570 MegaBytes
Statistical tests. Questionnaire structure overview: open, closed, multiple closed answers, nominal, ordinal, scale variable, missing values.
spss02.avi
899 MegaBytes
SPSS program overview: data view and variable view, output window. SPSS variables: types (text, numerical, date), missing data, measures (scale, ordinal, nominal), variable labels, value labels, missing value label, missing values. Exercise: build variables for the whole example’s questionnaire. Missing data: subject’s missing data, system missing data. SPSS cases and variables, output window. Menus overview. Buttons overview. View labels. Importing data from Excel files, delimited text files, fixed text files.
spss03.avi
683 MegaBytes
Univariate analysis: frequencies, descriptive statistics, contingency tables and one-dimensional chi-square test, Student’s t test for one population, sign (binomial) test. Bivariate analysis techniques: comparing means, Student’s t test for two unpaired populations, analysis of variance, tests’ significance.
spss04.avi
819 MegaBytes

Difference between paired and not paired data. Pearson and Spearman’s bivariate correlation. Partial and spurious correlations. Student’s t test for paired data.
Graphs: bar charts, pie charts, chart editor, element properties, histograms, changing the binning, boxplots, excluding categories, scatterplots, three dimensional bar plots. Exercises with graphs: relation analysis through contingency tables and chi-square (nominal-nominal), through boxplots (nominal-scale), through scatterplots (scale-scale).

spss05.avi
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Normality assumption and tests: histogram, skewness, kurtosis, Q-Q plot, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
Sorting files. Cases splitting, weighting and filtering.
Recode into different variables. Recode into same variable. Converting a scale variable into an ordinal variable through grouping. Compute new variables: functions, usage of MEAN function, boolean expressions.

spss06.avi
991 MegaBytes

Usage of MISSING function. Count values. Exercises on variable calculation. Date and time operations. Missing values replacement. Weighted indexes, indexes for binary variables. Examples on index building with SPSS.

spss07.avi
547 MegaBytes

Regression, linear regression, coefficients, R-square, residuals, residual histogram, graph in scatterplot. Non-linear regressions. Logistic regression.
Non parametric tests. Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis.

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