Teaching analytics with modern Excel
What makes data clean? You may not be able to name those qualities, but you likely know messy data when you see it. In this blog post, we'll look at a frequent offender: unpivoted data. You'll learn …
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I liken Power Query to the Narnia of Power Query -- a magical place, but not so easy to locate: Here's how to load your Excel data into Power Query...and an example what to do with it when you …
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A major reason I think it’s easier for Excel users to pick up R versus Python is that these tools tend to "think" more similarly than Python. See what I mean here: let's take a range of numbers and …
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Not only is Power Query a phenomenal tool for transforming data in Excel, it also enforces good data hygiene 🧼. What do I mean by that? Think about the steps that you take every day to present …
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Here’s a little secret: No one is impressed by that giant Frankenformula you wrote in Excel. Just like with writing anything, the less verbose you can write your formulas, the better. ✂ A few ways …
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This is something that happens to me all the time: I've got data in an Excel table and want to add an index column (because I believe every dataset should have an index column). Index columns …
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