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What Keeps Excel as the heart of business: Chandoo


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Today’s guest barely needs an introduction. Purna Duggirala (aka, “Chandoo”) is a celebrity in Excel circles. Since 2004, Chandoo has been regularly sharing everything he learns working with Excel training hundreds of finance teams, and had roles including as Data Lead, Remuneration Modeling & Analytics for the New Zealand government. 

The 16-time Microsoft MVP runs Chandoo.org , which aims to “make you awesome in Excel and Power BI” getting 250,000  visitors per month from all over the world and his YouTube channel has 750,000 subscribers. His stated goal is “to make you awesome at Excel and Power BI”, and produces the go-to Excel resources  from blog posts and videos to full online courses.

  • My Excel Journey and Community building 
  • Skill gaps in FP&A Teams
  • Power BI vs Excel vs Python
  • Copilot – advantages and limits
  • My favorite Excel function
  • Check out https://chandoo.org

    Chandoo’s Free Data analyst course: https://chandoo.org/wp/free-data-analyst-course/

    Connect with Chandoo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/purnaduggirala/

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