Microsoft’s cloud-hosted data lake and lakehouse platform gains new data science tools and opens up Power BI datasets to Python, R, and SparkSQL. The modern enterprise is powered by data, bringing ...

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a messy spreadsheet of survey data, wondering how to make sense of it all, you’re not alone. From split headers to inconsistent blanks, the challenges of ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...

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 ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query’s extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

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 ...

Many people avoid Power Query because they think it's too technical, but it's actually one of the safest and easiest ways to organize your data. It handles the dirty work with an intuitive interface, ...

We've all been there: struggling with a nested Excel formula that breaks when your data shifts, or using Flash Fill only to find it missed half the rows. I stopped relying on those fragile workarounds ...