Did you know that data analysts spend up to 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not alone. The good news is that tools like Power Query in Excel and ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

My work used to involve waiting for raw files, opening them one by one, copying the data, pasting it into a master sheet, fixing column names and formats, removing junk rows, combining all the ...

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Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes. Microsoft Power Query ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

I'll admit: sometimes I get bogged down in Excel's power-user features, from Power Query and the Data Model to Python. But when I stop and think about the things that actually help me every day, it's ...