Ask HN: Small business data science tools?

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I am looking for some suggestions for small businesses analytics. Any services that would help a small business owner gain insight into the data they have. An important piece of a potential service I'm looking for is that the tool would help the business owner use and combine data from different spreadsheets (and possibly other data sources that small businesses generate).

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I think generally the question for most small businesses should actually be "How do we get them to be able to do more stuff in Excel."

https://www.blockspring.com/ or airtable would be pretty close to the top of my list.

If I had 3 hours with a small business to teach them as many data science skills as possible, I'd teach them how to use goal solver, how to run a markov simulation so you can model things approximately, and maybe, maybe, how to do some basic statistics.

Nice, thanks!

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