In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

I have an excel sheet that I want to compare old and new prices with. I know I can use the df.compare to get the difference between the old and new prices like this: So The claim numbers and already ...

Imagine this: you’ve just received a dataset for an urgent project. At first glance, it’s a mess—duplicate entries, missing values, inconsistent formats, and columns that don’t make sense. You know ...

Have you ever wished Excel could do more of the heavy lifting for you? Imagine transforming hours of tedious data cleaning and analysis into just a few clicks. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s ...