Taking a look at how marketers can unlock the power of data analysis using traditional tabular software and data languages. Marketers would like to unlock the power of data — but with so many ...

Microsoft has released an add-in for Microsoft Excel called Data Explorer. It is now called Microsoft Power Query. The free add-in has been designed to reduce your efforts in searching, shaping, and ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

Excel is more than just a spreadsheet tool; it is a comprehensive platform for data analysis and business intelligence. By using its advanced tools—Power Query, Power Pivot, and DAX—you can elevate ...

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 ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Cleaning up data by hand in Excel is a recipe for mistakes, and even well-built formulas can become difficult to maintain as spreadsheets grow. Power Query is often dismissed as a tool for data ...

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If you need a complete list of Microsoft Excel sheet names, Power Query is fast and generates a dynamic list. When a Microsoft Excel workbook contains a lot of sheets, the sheet tab you need is often ...