5 tips for data manipulation in Excel
There's plenty you can do, if you know the correct formulas.
By Sharon Machlis
March 4, 2014 06:30 AM ET
Computerworld - If you work with data much, you don't need a statistical model to predict that the odds of consistently getting data in the format you need for analysis are pretty low. Those who do a great deal of data cleaning and reformatting often turn to scripting languages like Python or specialty tools such as OpenRefine or R. But it turns out that there's a lot of data munging) you can do in a plain old Excel spreadsheet -- if you know how to craft the proper formulas.
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