Have you ever found yourself staring at a growing dataset in Excel, wondering how to make sense of the numbers without spending hours manually updating formulas? Whether you’re tracking monthly sales, ...

Knowing how to calculate relative and cumulative distribution in Excel can be useful in a variety of circumstances. It can be used in market analysis to sort a sample of people into age groups. It can ...

A cumulative average recalculates a data set's average as new data is added. During the recalculation all data contained in the data set is included in the average. In Microsoft Excel your spreadsheet ...

Using just one formula, you can create an entire table, generate a filtered view, calculate a running total, or build a compact list that updates itself every time your data changes. If you’re ready ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and ...