Data Mining In Excel: Lecture Notes and Cases by Yanchang Zhao.
Table of contents (270 page book)
- Overview of the Data Mining Process
- Data Exploration and Dimension Reduction
- Evaluating Classification and Predictive Performance
- Multiple Linear Regression
- Three Simple Classification Methods
- Classification and Regression Trees
- Logistic Regression
- Neural Nets
- Discriminant Analysis
- Association Rules
- Cluster Analysis
You knew that someday all those Excel files would be useful! 😉 Well, today may be the day!
A bit dated, 2005, but should be a good starting place.
If you are interested in learning data mining in Excel cold, try comparing the then capacities of Excel to the current version of Excel and updating the text/examples.
Best way to learn it is to update and then teach it to others.