What’s the only thing better than real data?
Fake data! Well, at least sometimes — such as for conducting training or testing models.
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You may know about RANDBETWEEN( ), Excel’s built-in nifty random number generator, to mock up quantitative data.
But what if we want qualitative data: that is, a color or location?
Turns out we can use RANDBETWEEN( ) in combination with a little-known Excel function to achieve this result.
Check out the video:
Download the exercise file here.
Or dump the categories into a column, and use INDEX(RANDBETWEEN)
I like it. Thanks, Jon!