Fig. 13.1.2 The personal computer.The most popular tool available to the personal analyst is the spreadsheet. The
spreadsheet—as measured by a number of licenses—has to be the most ubiquitous tool
for analysis that there is. There are millions and millions of spreadsheets on personal
computers around the world.
At a Midwest bank recently, it was estimated that for the 2000 employees at the bank's
one site, there were 4,000,000 spreadsheets that had been created in order to make
banking decisions.
Fig. 13.1.3 shows that the spreadsheet is the analytic tool most used on the personal
computer.
Chapter 13.1: Personal Analytics