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The following video provides a great introduction to doing pivot tables in Excel:

https://youtu.be/UsdedFoTA68

The following video provides a great introduction to doing pivot tables in Excel:

https://youtu.be/UsdedFoTA68

Wikipedia has fairly good articles on KPIs and the SMART criteria.

Here is a simple introduction to the concepts behind MapReduce and Hadoop Big Data technologies.

https://youtu.be/43fqzaSH0CQ

Note that the products themselves are less interesting than the idea of how we can process huge amounts of data effectively.

This video demonstrates differences between a relational database and an Excel spreadsheet for storing data:

Here are some of my favorite horror stories how things went wrong due to bad data:

https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/

Differences between infographics and data visualizations are discussed in these two posts:

https://www.statsilk.com/blog/real-difference-between-infographics-and-data-visualizations

https://killervisualstrategies.com/blog/difference-between-infographics-data-visualization.html

We use Piktochart to create an infographic on MIS0855, but there a numerous other web-based tools available:

https://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971

There are several ‘how to’ articles on how to tell a story with data, just google ‘telling stories with data’:

https://www.google.com/search?q=telling+stories+with+data

They all tell pretty much the same story, so you can choose the one that works for you.

Look at how to use and not to use pie charts:

https://www.martinraffeiner.blog/using-data-visualizations-bad-guy-pie-charts/

An old but still relevant TED talk by Eli Pariser on how the web is being inconspicuously personalized for individual tastes creating bubbles of like-minded people.

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tedspread

…and its critique:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/06/eli-pariser-s-the-filter-bubble-is-web-personalization-turning-us-into-solipsistic-twits.html

…and a more recent take on the topic:

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/11/12/20959479/eli-pariser-civic-signals-filter-bubble-q-a