1. MS Excel in Investigations Use MS Excel for analysis, charts, and importing and exporting data

2. Five Topics Mileage Analysis (thefts, staged losses) Transponder trainer (APD job aid) ISO IQ Downloads (import to Excel) Map Visuals (export from Excel) Facebook Visualizer (graph friend associations)

3. Mileage Calculator The recon may tell you the car has not been driven for some time (physical evidence) Mileage estimates can tell you the same (circumstantial) You need mileage points (appraisals, ISO, service records from glovebox, etc) and… …a few Excel formulas

4. Mileage Calculator

5. Thefts

6. IQ Downloads Many of us keep track of related claims in Excel You may run all data in ISO to expand Use IQ downloads to save copy / paste Once in Excel, sort or move columns to suit your needs

9. Upload addresses to Maps You may have a list of related addresses, whether hand entered or IQ downloaded You may want to plot these In Excel, you can name the columns (address, city, state) and Excel and the map program will intelligently pull the addresses and plot them Nice visual, and can be used to plot drivetime areas (part. of staged accidents)

11. Facebook Visualizer Multiplication table of Facebook connections See how accident passengers connect Use as a guide for who to ask interviewee about Compare two or more friend lists for common names Download and search friend lists outside of Facebook

12. Facebook Visualizer Make color-coded graphs that simplify your ring One formula of importance: =IF(VLOOKUP(C2,k_cadet,1)=C2,"FB"," ") Excel skills needed: write formula above, and change to suit needs Name fields / arrays ; sort

13. I’ve blacked out the names lists as the investigation is active, but this demonstrates the visual of all the involved profiles. The left hand column must be the Facebook handles, so notice “Fhdjsbg” is not the real name. When I interview this person, I am going to want to be sure to ask him how he knows everyone who intersects on his yellow line with “FB”. Time is moving down and to the right, and each colored box is a crash. In truly random crashes, where all the crashes where random and no one knew each other, there would be no connections. Clearly, not only is that NOT the case, but the purple and green crash each have occupants that are FB friends with someone in the opposing car.